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Covellite from
Bottino Mine, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Comments:Only observed as alteration of chalcopyrite in the veins.
Quality for species:Rock forming mineral/non-crystalline/little interest for collectors.(##)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bottino Mine, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:83402
Long-form Identifier:1:3:83402:7
GUID (UUID V4):b1fa3b86-b4c8-4253-b636-7f0b0ba8f1f3
Nearest other occurrences of Covellite
7.7km (4.8 miles) Madielle quarries, Madielle quarrying basin, Massa, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
7.9km (4.9 miles) Marianna Bassa Quarry, Madielle quarrying basin, Massa, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
13.4km (8.3 miles) Artana Quarry (Artana B Quarry), Colonnata quarrying basin, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
13.6km (8.5 miles) Calagio quarries (Calagio Quarry; Olmo Quarry), Colonnata quarrying basin, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
14.8km (9.2 miles) Fantiscritti, Miseglia quarrying basin (Miseglia-Fantiscritti quarrying basin; Fantiscritti quarrying basin), Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
15.3km (9.5 miles) Fior di Chiara Quarry (Fiordichiara Quarry; Fiordichiara quarries), Fantiscritti, Miseglia quarrying basin (Miseglia-Fantiscritti quarrying basin; Fantiscritti quarrying basin), Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
43.5km (27.0 miles) Ca' de Vanni (Cà Vanni), Frassinoro, Modena Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
48.5km (30.1 miles) Montecreto mines, Montecreto, Modena Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
62.2km (38.7 miles) Piazza Mine, Deiva Marina, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
62.5km (38.9 miles) Pozzo Stope, Corchia mine, Berceto, Parma Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tourmalinite-Associated Pb-Zn-Ag Mineralization at Bottino, Apuane Alps, Italy: GeologicSetting,Mineral Textures,and...Universitddi Firenze,via G. La Pira 4, 1-50121 Firenze,Italy AND GIUSEPPE TANELLI Dipartimentodi Scienzedella...Mezzocannone 8, 1-80138Napoli,Italy Abstract The Pb-Zn-Agdepositsof Bottino,Italy, are amongthe mostsignificant...mostsignificant in the ApuaneAlps (NW Tuscany)miningdistrictandwere activelyexploitedin the past.The orebodiesconstitute...metamorphicore concentrationat Bottino. Introduction 'THEApuane Alps(NWTuscany, Italy)havebeenthe focus of mineral
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PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FEDERICO PEZZOTTA CURATOR OF MINERALOGY...JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 2011 PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY Participating Collectors: Marco Amabili Silvia...Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto collection... MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY )In OutCine of MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY Federico Pezzotta Mineralogy...literature and music, scholars and aristocrats in Italy assembled some of the first great collections of
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Montevecchio-Ingurtosu, southwestern Sardinia, Italy: a summary of previous knowledge and new mineralogical...Montevecchio-Ingurtosu, southwestern Sardinia, Italy: a summary of previous knowledge and new mineralogical...Montevecchio-Ingurtosu, southwestern Sardinia, Italy: 2 a summary of previous knowledge and new mineralogical...Università degli Studi di Italy 9 10 aDipartimento Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy 11 cIGG-CNR, 12 dDipartimento...di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Italy for Exploration Targeting, School of Earth Sciences
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University] at 05:52 29 January 2015 FRENCH CREEK IRON MINE, CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA M any minerals described...specimens. One such locality is the French Creek iron mine, Chester County, Pennsylvania, an occurrence worthy...States; they occur in relative abundance in a broad province that occupies southern Arizona and northern Sonora...of chalcopyrite crystals from the Old Lurzenbach mine, Gosenbach, Siegen, Germany. Jack Halpern specimen...at Rossie, St. Lawrence County, at the Sterling mine, Jefferson County, and in very large crystals associated
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Golden brown barite crystals, Villamassargia, near mine, Guanajuato, Mexico (8.5 cm). Iglesias, Sardinia...Enna, Sicily (6 cm). West 800 Level, White Capps mine, Man- 11: Dark grey stibnite crystals, (variety... Nuristan, Laghman hattan, Nevada (9.5 cm). Province, Afghanistan (5.3 cm). Figure 13: Silver, Calumet...fluorite crystals on grey galena crystals, Elmwood mine, Carthage, Tennessee (5 cm). Figure 17: Transparent... dark blue-green vivianite crystals, Montserrat mine, Pazna, Bolivia (12 cm). Figure Figure 19: Transparent
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is cross-cut by a crack filled with secondary covellite (blue). Optically Similar Minerals of comparable...increasing oxidation potential: bornitechalcocite/covellite-tenorite and/or malachite plus azurite; native...orange to brown Vonsenite strong, orange shades Covellite strong, yellowish brown to bluish violet grey... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,
Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by |GDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...corundum 25, 25 cornetite 66, 66 cotunnite 22, 22 covellite 8, 8 crandallite 67 crocidolite 100 crocoite 62...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States...Filiform silver: Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) endritic copper rmation. Houghton fichigan) ...covered with calcite. Casteltermini, Agrigento (Italy) look more different. Theirs is the most notable
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with Orbis Publishing Limited abcdefgh Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara Adapted from the original Italian...corundum 25, 25 cornetite 66, 66 biotite 80, 104 covellite 8, 8 betafite 28 binnite 11 bismuthides 8 bismuthinite...Idrija (Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States...Filiform silver. Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) Dendritic copper famous (Michigan) 1822. It...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite
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Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...corundum 25, 25 cornetite 66, 66 cotunnite 22, 22 covellite 8, 8 crandallite 67 crocidolite 100 crocoite 62...59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM All physical bodies in Nature can be...or slightly rotated Vitreous. Like glass 3 THE MINE Class I: native ·elements Chemical elernents found...(Yugoslavia), son1e n1ines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almaden (Spain). In the United States
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limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite, siderite Faber lead mine-near Faber cerussite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, argentiferous...topaz, tourmaline, triplite Trueheart pegmatite mine (f)-near Amelia beryl (var. aquamarine), microcline... magnesite, magnetite, pyrite, talc Stony Point mine-near Charlottesville chalcopyrite, cuprite, goethite...goethite, malachite, siderite Buck Mountain mine-near Forks of Buffalo arsenopyrite, fluroite, gold, scorodite...perrierite, rhabdophane, zircon Christian tract mine (copper)-near Sweet Briar actinolite-tremolite,
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Poland; from Bottino, Tuscany, Italy; near Paterna, Almeria, Spain; and at the Heazlewood mine, Tasmania...the chalcocite in spots to be actually bladed covellite. Several crystals of a gray mineral with well...corroded by the copper sulfides chalcocite and covellite. With these minerals occurred galena, though in...which were found at the 960 foot level, Franklin mine. These specimens are a dull black color, with cavities...a mineral was noted many years ago at Bologna, Italy, when a specimen of barite, called "Bologna stone"
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miners drill holes in the rock at Taxco silver mine in Mexico. Right: North Sea drilling rig 'Claymore-A'...crystals set in an asbestos base from Sondrio in Italy. Actinolite has high mechanical sensitivity - this...(matrix) from Balzano, Italy. Below: Note the blackness of these crystals from Novara, Italy. ~ Actinolite forms...British Columbia (Canada), in the Alpine regions of Italy, in New Zealand, in Siberia (Russia) and in Alaska...particularly in the Ojuela result of some chemical Mine in Durango State. reaction that has occurred Significant
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mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5...divided by the weight of an Graphite, Black Donald Mine, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada * 14 x 11 x 10
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION...conditions in the gold-bearing "greenstone" in Abitibi province in northern Ontario and Quebec. Some genetic problems
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Republic). W.D. Birch (Australia), Elena Bonaccorsi (Italy), Ernst A.J. Burke (Netherlands), L.J. Cabri (Canada)...M. Dcliens (Belgium). Giancarlo Delia Ventura (Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA)....(Canada). L.A. Groat (Canada). Alessandro Guastoni (Italy), William A. Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth...(ltaly). Igor Pekov (Russia), atale Perchiazzi (Italy). Ole V. Petersen (Denmark). Fedcrico Pezzotta (ltaly)...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the
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new species which he ha discovered at the Tip Top mine was named robertsite in his honoi Roberts was founder...cm, collected in 1867 at Grube Louise (the Louise mine), Biirdenbach, Westerwald, West Ger­ many. Photo...Louise, Horhausen, FRG San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy Kongsberg, Norway Friedrichssegen, Bad Ems, FRG...4 cm, on matrix, from San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy. Photo by Rainer Bode. 260 The M in eralogical...6-12 cm, Adamite with Hemimorphite from the Ojuela mine, pale green and purple Naica fluorites in small
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Rocks and Minerals is in itself a veritable gold mine. Readers learn about the inside of minerals — the...is an example of a poly- tites. been found in Italy (Sicily and Romagna), Diamond is found in South...Australia, Morocco, Zambia, the Balkan countries, Italy, etc. converted into beta-sulfur (monoclinic for...France. fi? A Sulfur (ca. x 1), Belisio, Pesaro, Italy. Octahedral diamond crystal > : (ca. x 0.5) Kimberley...sublimation craters. Germany, Hungary, Japan, and Italy. of sea water. Deep deposits, due to their ASSOCIATED
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are: Russia (46), United States of America (34), Italy (19), Canada (16), People's Republic of China (11)...Czech Republic Finland France Germany Greece India Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Moon Nu111ber of Species...uranium-mercury-molybdenum deposit, Kaiyang, Guizhou Province, People's Republic of China. Occurrence: In uranium-bearing...(trigonal) HBaAl 3 (AsOJ 2 (0H) 6 Locality: The Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, in the middle Black Forest, Germany...)(CO 3 )s(OH) 2 ·1.SH2 O Locality: T he Kamoto East mine, District ofKolwezi, southern Shaba, Zafre (Lat
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such as pyrite-chalcopyrite-bornite-chalcocite-covellite native copper, etc., where the textural interpretation...turn being replaced by covellite (CuS) and a network of fine anastomosing covellite veinlets extending into...into 25 the bornite. In the covellite-mass neo-crystallization of chalcocite and even chalcopyrite...bornite was replaced by chalcopyrite and also by covellite and neo-crystallizations of chalcocite and chalcopyrite...chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) marginally replaced by covellite (CuS). In contradistinction though to the cases
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and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...5, for Black Forest read Odenwald. for Rhine Province read Westphalia. for in the Tirol read, Salzburg...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman...Bologna, 1873-75. Born (1773). Briefe von Wdlschland (Italy), by Ignatius von Born. 8vo, Prague, 1773. (1772-75)...pegmatite minerals together with scheelite (Natas mine, South- West Africa); in contact metamorphic deposits
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4 . A. Verri. Boll. 8oe. Geol, vii. 97. Central Italy. C. John. Jahrb. Geol. Reichs. xxxviii. 343. Jablanlca...Vesuvius; and N. J. 1888 (2), 130. Vesuvius. COVELLITE. A. Seacchi. Art. Ist. Nap. i. (5), 9. V6suvlus;...1888 (2), 129. H. Traube. N . J . 1888 (2), 253. Bottino. A. Cathrein. Min. Mitth. x. 55. Cryst. C. Doelter...Soc. vi. 343. Rocks and Minerals. Iao~ O~Es. ITALY. ITALY {CB~TRAL). J . T . B . Ires. Proe. Can. Inst...13. A. Verri. Boll. See. Geol. vii. 84. Central Italy. C. Klein. Mirth. Ak. Berl. 1888, 24. Bolsener See
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JOURDA:~ [48] yon ko]loidaIem Magnetkies in der Bottino-Mine. LAm)~RmLK und WOODFORD [36] beschrieben ein...pressures of sulfides, and its application to covellite and pyrite. Amer. J. Sei. (4) Bd. 43 (1917) S...colloidal pyrrhotite and of other minerals in the Bottino mine. C. R, hebd. Sdances Acad. Sci. Bd. 96 (1933)
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hexagonal dipyramid (first MINERALS graphite covellite and second order) molybdenite dihexagonal prism...sample of scheelite, coming from Traversella (Turin, Italy), in light natural (above) and exposed Other...that a collector in the field should visit are mine dumps and quarry rubble heaps, where there will...small deposits are found near Pisa and Florence (Italy). Uses Native copper rarely occurs in large enough... lb) was mined. How- been from the Guanajuato mine (Mexico), about 500 billion kilos (460,000,000 tons)
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is found Include Almaden (Spain), Monte Amlata (Italy), ldrija (Slovenia), Moschellandsberg (Germany)...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...(Canada), Kern County (California, USA), Sardinia (Italy) and Sarawak (Borneo). Sb Colour: light grey ...Russia, South Korea, Mexico, the Czech RepubUc and Italy. C Colour: black Lustre; opacity: dull metallic;...turn, may be altered to malachite, azurite and covellite. Good examples of pseudohexagonal crystals come
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is found Include Almaden (Spain), Monte Amlata (Italy), ldrija (Slovenia), Moschellandsberg (Germany)...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...(Canada), Kern County (California, USA), Sardinia (Italy) and Sarawak (Borneo). Sb Colour: light grey ...Russia, South Korea, Mexico, the Czech RepubUc and Italy. C Colour: black Lustre; opacity: dull metall...turn, may be altered to malachite, azurite and covellite. Good examples of pseudohexagonal crystals come
 
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