 | Caucia, Franca Piera, Marinoni, Luigi, Scacchetti, Maurizio, Riccardi, Maria Pia, Bartoli, Omar (2020) The Vesuvianite Gems of the Val d’Ala (Piedmont, Italy) Minerals, 10 (6) 535 doi:10.3390/min10060535 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Article The Vesuvianite Gems of the Val d’Ala (Piedmont, Italy) Franca Piera Caucia 1 , Luigi Marinoni 1 ...degli Studi di Pavia, via Ferrata 9, I-27100 Pavia, Italy; francapiera.caucia@unipv.it (F.P.C.); luigitito...I-42100, via G. Puccini 4, I-42124 Reggio Emilia, Italy; mauscacchetti@alice.it DiGS—Università degli Studi...Studi di Padova, via Gradenigo 6, I-35131 Padova, Italy; omar.bartoli@unipd.it Correspondence: mariapia... Abstract: In Val d’Ala (Western Alps in Piedmont, Italy), the most interesting rocks for mineralogical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Petrology of Manganese-Rich Rocks From St. Marcel, Piedmont, Italy * Philip Brown, Eric J. Essene, and Donald...metamorphic rocks containing violan from St. Marcel, Piedmont, Italy formed under blueschist facies conditions,...unit cell, and is found in the same sample as diopside, possibly indicating a solvus relation. A manganoan...Manganese-rich rocks from St. Marcel, Val d'Aosta, Italy have long been known as a source of piedmontite...violan is an omphacite in the same sample with diopside and thus apparently exhibiting a solvus relation |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PAGANO PO Box 37 Via Oggioni 76 I-20092 Cinisello, Italy renpagan@gmail.com Figure 1 (left). Tiziano Bonisoli...The Tiziano Bonisoli COLLECTION Turin (Torino), Italy Dr. Renato Pagano is a lifelong collector of rare...Bonisoli on the top floor of his home in Turin, Italy, is that of a Wunderkammer, an eclectic mix of natural...× 2 cm, from Monte Cervandone, Val Devero, Piedmont, Italy. Bonisoli specimen 3675, Roberto Appiani photo...specimen 3349, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 10 (left). Diopside, 3-cm crystal with grossular, 11 × 6 cm, from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Scienze della Terra, via Valperga Caluso 37, Torino {Italy) and Centro di Studio sui Problemi dell' Orogeno...201-214. The Lanzo lherzolites (west of Torino, Italy) exhibit a history of decompression at relatively...many affinities with N-MORB and with the other Piedmont ophiolites; they were produced by partial melting...oceanic-type stages which led to the opening of the small Piedmont-Ligurian basin. (Received October 15, 1984; accepted... 1982), have shown many similarities with the Piedmont ophiolites. Except for high-temperature deformation |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Turin, Via Valperga Caluso 37, Torino 70725, Italy G . B. PICCARDO Department of Earth Sciences, University...University of Genoa, Corso Europa 26, Genova 76732, Italy During the last few years, the publication of special...the development of a diopside-oligoclase symplectite after omphacite with diopside later replaced by hornblende...the opening and the subsequent closure of the Piedmont oceanic basin. Castelli's contribution deals with...of the metamorphic ophiolites from the Penninic Piedmont Zone are examined. In the first paper, Scambelluri |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | asbestiformrock-forming silicate from Val Yaraita, Italy Rornnro Colap,lcNoNr Dipartimento di Scienze ilella...della Calabria, Castiglione scalo,87030 Cosenza,Italy Grov,tNNt FnnnlRts Dipartimento di Scienze della...Uniuersitd di Torino, uia S. Massimo 22, 10123 Torino, Italy ,C,NDMARCSLIO MELLINI C.N.R., C.S. Geologia Strutturale...Dinamic a dell Appennino uia S. Maria 53,56100 Pisa,Italy Abctract Carlosturaniteis a new rock-forming silicate...ophiolite, Italy. It is light-brown, asbestiform,and the [010] fibers are paralleled by fibrous diopside and |  | Diella, Valeria, Bocchio, Rosangela, Marinoni, Nicoletta, Caucia, Franca, Spalla, Maria Iole, Adamo, Ilaria, Langone, Antonio, Mancini, Lucia (2019) Garnets from Val d’Ala Rodingites, Piedmont, Italy: An Investigation of Their Gemological, Spectroscopic and Crystal Chemical Properties. Minerals, 9 (12) 728 doi:10.3390/min9120728 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Article Garnets from Val d’Ala Rodingites, Piedmont, Italy: An Investigation of Their Gemological, Spectroscopic...Milan, Italy Department of Earth Sciences “Ardito Desio”, University of Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy; rosangela...Pavia, Italy; caucia@crystal.unipv.it Italian Gemological Institute (IGI), 20123 Milan, Italy; ilaria...Pavia, National Research Council, 27100 Pavia, Italy; langone@igg.cnr.it Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste...Trieste S.C.p.A., 34149 Basovizza (Trieste), Italy; lucia.mancini@elettra.eu Correspondence: valeria.diella@cnr |  | Cámara, Fernando, Bittarello, Erica, Ciriotti, Marco E., Nestola, Fabrizio, Radica, Francesco, Marchesini, Marco (2015) As-bearing new mineral species from Valletta mine, Maira Valley, Piedmont, Italy: II. Braccoite, NaMn2+5 [Si5AsO17(OH)](OH), description and crystal structure. Mineralogical Magazine, 79 (1) 171-189 doi:10.1180/minmag.2015.079.1.14 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | species from Valletta mine, Maira Valley, Piedmont, Italy: II. Braccoite, NaMn2+ 5 [Si5AsO17(OH)](OH)...via Tommaso Valperga Caluso 35, I-10125 Turin, Italy CrisDi, Interdepartmental Center for Crystallography...Crystallography, via Pietro Giuria 7, I-10125, Turin, Italy Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana, via San Pietro...Pietro 55, I-10073 Devesi-Cirié, Turin, Italy Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di...Padova, via Giovanni Gradenigo 6, I-35131 Padova, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università |  | | Report (issue) | | Z = [2] X-ray Powder Pattern: Balangero mine, Italy. 2.714 (100), 6.77 (80), 2.674 (75), 3.378 (45)...MgO CaO H2 O Total [100.00] (1) Balangero mine, Italy; by electron microprobe, average of 16 analyses;...alloy, olivine, chlorite, titanian clinohumite, diopside, antigorite, calcite, aragonite, \opal", \chalcedony"...della Neve, Fiano, Piedmont, Italy. Name: For the Balangero mine, Piedmont, Italy. Type Material: Mineralogy...Mineralogy Institute, Turin University, Turin, Italy, 14873. References: (1) Compagnoni, R., G. Ferraris |  | Scarsi, Marco, Crispini, Laura, Malatesta, Cristina, Spagnolo, Chiara, Capponi, Giovanni (2019) Geological Map of a Treasure Chest of Geodiversity: The Lavagnina Lakes Area (Alessandria, Italy) Geosciences, 9 (5) 229 doi:10.3390/geosciences9050229 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geodiversity: The Lavagnina Lakes Area (Alessandria, Italy) Marco Scarsi 1, * , Laura Crispini 1 , Cristina...Studi di Genova, Corso Europa, 26, 16132 Genova, Italy; laura.crispini@unige.it (L.C.); cristina.malatesta@unige...Independent Researcher, Chiavari, 16043 Genova, Italy; chiara.spagnolo@yahoo.it Correspondence: marco...Park, occurring in the southern Piedmont Region (Alessandria, NW Italy) and close to the suburbs of Genoa...The area represents a section of the Jurassic Piedmont Ligurian oceanic lithosphere, showing several |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto collection Jeff Scovil photo... 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 |  | SCAMBELLURI, M., STRATING, E. H. HOOGERDUIJN, PICCARDO, G. B., VISSERS, R. L. M., RAMPONE, E. (1991) Alpine olivine- and titanian clinohumite-bearing assemblages in the Erro-Tobbio peridotite (Voltri Massif, NW Italy) Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 9 (1) 79-91 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.1991.tb00505.x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in the Erro-Tobbio peridotite (Voltri Massif, NW Italy) M. SCAMBELLURI,' E. H . H O O G E R D U l j N STRATING...Sezione Petrografia, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy *Department of Geology, lnstitute of Earth Sciences...in the Alps-Apennine system and closure of the Piedmont-Ligurian basin. Key words: eclogite; mylonite;...peridotite; titanian clinohumite; Voltri Massif, N W Italy. List of abbreviations Acm =acmite end-member Atg...chloritoid Cld Ctl = chrysotile Czo = clinozoisite Di =diopside end-member En = enstatite end-member Fs = ferrosilite |  | Cámara, F., Bittarello, E., Ciriotti, M. E., Nestola, F., Radica, F., Massimi, F., Balestra, C., Bracco, R. (2017) As-bearing new mineral species from Valletta mine, Maira Valley, Piedmont, Italy: III. Canosioite, Ba2Fe3+(AsO4)2(OH), description and crystal structure. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (2) 305-317 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.097 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | species from Valletta mine, Maira Valley, Piedmont, Italy: III. Canosioite, Ba2Fe3+(AsO4)2(OH), description...via Tommaso Valperga Caluso 35, I-10125 Torino, Italy CrisDi, Interdepartmental Centre for the Research...Crystallography, via Pietro Giuria 5, I-10125 Torino, Italy Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana, via San...San Pietro 55, I-10073 Devesi-Cirié, Torino, Italy Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di...di Padova, via G. Gradenigo 6, I-35131 Padova, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università degli |  | | Catalog/List | | mass in 3x2 Casagna Mine, Graveglia Valley Liguria Italy £ 10 L...~~--------1 --=2q_ PR.INCIVALLEITE one...an~ schis~_ Curiglia, Varese Province, Lombardy Italy 1.5cm£10 --- ------ - ·=- - 30 CHRYSOCOLLA,...smaller area. Scerscen Glacier Sondrio province Italy . £20 • 34 TIRAGALLOITE sample B) about 8x8mm orange...thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected it in 2019. £18 46 OPAL orange brown...Mine, Aosta Italy 60 LEUCITE three 2mm grey crystal embedded in lava Monte Somma Naples Italy. type location |  | | Catalog/List | | mass in 3x2 Casagna Mine, Graveglia Valley Liguria Italy £10 2 2 -=- .__ 38 DOLOMITE mass of small crystalline...and schist Curiglia, Varese Province, Lombardy Italy 1.5cm £10 42 AMEL YGONITE white cleavage piece 4x2x2...Braunite 3.5x2.5 . Scerscen Glacier Sondrio province Italy . £20 (photo) 46 NATROJAROSITE yellow brown crystalline...across on matrix lx2cm matrix Varenche Mine Aosta Italy £10 65 CALCITE after IKAITE intergrown crystal sections...on the base. Crevoladossola, Ossola Valley, Piedmont Italy £10 • ,~ • L .~ ( - _ _ 72 FORSTERITE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Universit)t di Bologna, Italy, C.N.R. Centro per la Cristallografia strutturale, Pavia, Italy, Naturhistorisches...Austria Violan Revisited: Mn-Bearing Omphacite and Diopside A. Mottana, G. Rossi, A. Kracher, and G. Kurat...deposit of Praborna, near St. Marcel (Aosta Valley, Italy) occur in two different varieties: euhedral crystals...aggregates consist mainly of disordered C2/c impure diopside with alternating patches of pure diopsidic and...reserved for the "ex-colore" violet varieties of both diopside and omphacite. Zusammenfassung Violan, ein Mn-J~hrender |  | | Catalog/List | | rich orange crust on 1.5cm x 8mm matrix Libiola Italy with copy ofNHM museum label £10 35 SKUTTERUDITE...on 2xl .5cm surface Molinello Mine Val Graveglia Italy £7 66 UINTAHITE glassy black solid hydrocarbon Fort...mass in 3x2 Casagna Mine, Graveglia Valley Liguria Italy £ 1O 72 DOLOMITE mass of small crystalline cleavages...and schist Curiglia, Varese Province, Lombardy Italy 1.5cm £10 rare Tourmaline group mineral 75 CLINOPTILOLITE...across on matrix lx2cm matrix Varenche Mine Aosta Italy £10 6 ' 80 CALCITE after IKAITE intergrown crystal |  | VIGNAROLI, G., ROSSETTI, F., BOUYBAOUENE, M., MASSONNE, H.-J., THEYE, T., FACCENNA, C., FUNICIELLO, R. (2005) A counter-clockwise P-T path for the Voltri Massif eclogites (Ligurian Alps, Italy) Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 23 (7) 533-555 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2005.00592.x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | for the Voltri Massif eclogites (Ligurian Alps, Italy) G. VIGNAROLI1, F. ROSSETTI1, M. BOUYBAOUENE2, H...Roma Tre, Largo S.L. Murialdo 1, 00146 – Rome, Italy (vignarol@geo.uniroma3.it) 2 Département Géologie...serpentinite matrix of the Voltri Massif (Ligurian Alps, Italy). The results provide the first evidence for a counter-clockwise...Apennines (Fig. 1a), represents remnants of the Liguro-Piedmont oceanic domain. This ocean was subducted and exhumed...the Valosio Crystalline Massif and the Tertiary Piedmont Basin. The last one contains Oligo-Miocene sediments |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pyroxene is partially or fully broken down to a diopside–plagioclase symplectite, and both garnet and pyroxene...Hypersthene is found as a minor phase in some diopside + plagioclase symplectites, which suggests retrogression...garnet composition with the assemblage plagioclase–diopside–hypersthene–quartz gives pressures of 14–16 kbar...on the east by the Brevard Zone and the Inner Piedmont Terrane. The boundary between the lower three...the Iapetus Ocean was subducted and the exotic Piedmont arc accreted onto the Laurentian margin (e.g. |  | | Book | | Guastoni; Roberto Appiani. Originally published: Italy : Mondadori, 2003. [256] p. : col. photos. ; cm...expressed on a scale from 1 to 10. diopside from the Susa Valley, Piedmont, Italy Pages 8-9: Beryl from the Codera...Codera Valley, Lombardy, Italy Pages 42-43: Silver with rhodochrosite from Peru Pages 50-51: Tetrahedrite...Mount Bregaceto, Liguria, Italy Pages 104-105: Azurite crystals from Sardinia, Italy Pages 118-119: Boracite...160-161: Elbaite crystals from the island of Elba, Italy Pages 244-245: Whewellite crystals from the Czech |  | | Catalog/List | | 3x2.5cm £60 Scerscen Glacier, Sondrio Province Italy Mn2+,i.As5+ShO 12(OH 3 TIRAGALLOITE orange massive-crystalline...smaller area. Scerscen Glacier Sondrio province Italy . Mn2+,i.As5+SbO12(OH) £30 4 TIRAGALLOITE sample...thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected it in 2019 . £18 9 VANADINITE attractive...red brown platy on 1 xl.5cm Varenche Mine, Aosta Italy £12 19 MUSCOVITE variety ALURGITE good rich covering...with minor Braunite 9x5 £30 Praboma Mine, Aosta Italy 20 LIZARDITE yellow green mass with attractive patterning |  | Toffolo, Luca, Nimis, Paolo, Martin, Silvana, Tumiati, Simone, Bach, Wolfgang (2017) The Cogne magnetite deposit (Western Alps, Italy): A Late Jurassic seafloor ultramafic-hosted hydrothermal system?. Ore Geology Reviews, 83. 103-126 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.11.030 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Manuscript The Cogne magnetite deposit (Western Alps, Italy): a Late Jurassic seafloor ultramafic-hosted hydrothermal...Bach, The Cogne magnetite deposit (Western Alps, Italy): a Late Jurassic seafloor ultramafic-hosted hydrothermal... 1 The Cogne magnetite deposit (Western Alps, Italy): a Late Jurassic seafloor ultramafic-hosted 2...Padua, Italy, Earth Sciences Department, University of Milan, via Mangiagalli 34, 20133 Milan, Italy, 10...17 The Cogne magnetite deposit (Western Alps, Italy) is the largest in a series of apatite and sulphide- |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy 2 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università...Università di Pisa, via S. Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy *Corresponding author, e-mail: pasero@dst.unipi.it Abstract:...described from Sparone, Locana Valley (TO), Piedmont, Italy. Here ardennite-(V) occurs within a piemontite-bearing...at Varenche mine, S. Barthelemy, Aosta Valley, Italy, but the crystal showed a marked zoning. Key-words:...ardennite-(V), new mineral species, Sparone, Piedmont, Italy, ardennite. Introduction The general formula |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals from the Manganese Mines of St. Marcel, Italy. By.S. L. PENFIELD (Amer. J. Sci., ;3], 46, 288--295)...name, a deep red mica from St. Marcel, in Piedmont, Italy. Since then it has neyer been investigated...by Breithaupt to a rare blue mineral found a t Piedmont. Published analyses of this miuerai show considerable...that the mineral is essentially a blue variety of diopside, containing small quantities of various well-recogniscd...mixture of the following metasilicates. MgCa(SiO& diopside NaA1(Si0,)2, jadeite NaFe(SiO&, acmite NaMn(SiO& |  | Osborne, G. D. (1932) The Igneous Rocks, Pyrometamorphism and Ore Deposition at Traversella, Piedmont, Italy. By W. Q. Kennedy. Bull. Suisse de Mineral, et Petrogr. = Schweiz. Mineralog. u. Petrogr. Mitt., vol. xi, part i, 1931, pp. 76–139. Geological Magazine, 69 (2) 88 doi:10.1017/s0016756800096023 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PYROMETAMORPHISM AND ORE DEPOSITION AT TRAVERSELLA, PIEDMONT, ITALY. By W. Q. Kennedy. Bull. Suisse de Mineral...country rock, and are specially characterized by diopside and garnet in varying proportions : other types...yields almost exactly the analysis of a theoretical diopside, carrying only about 1-8 per cent of iron oxides...analysed come within, or on the boundaries of, the diopside-garnet-anorthite field of the usual ternary diagram |
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Testa Ciarva, Mussa Alp, Balme, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy