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Opal from
Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Kalsilite2 photos of Opal associated with Kalsilite at this locality.
Magnetite1 photo of Opal associated with Magnetite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1109187
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1109187:7
GUID (UUID V4):62c8238d-edd2-477e-acec-a7e94df38353
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
35.6km (22.1 miles) Colle Fabbri, Spoleto, Perugia Province, Umbria, Italy
43.5km (27.0 miles) Montenero Quarry, Onano, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
65.1km (40.5 miles) Cassia Road km 61.5, Capranica, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
65.6km (40.7 miles) Campo Padella, Capranica, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
73.5km (45.7 miles) Campomorto Quarry, Pietra Massa Locality, Montalto di Castro, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
81.1km (50.4 miles) Sasso della Strega, Allumiere, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Lazio, Italy
81.7km (50.8 miles) Monte Cavalluccio, Campagnano di Roma, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Lazio, Italy
82.3km (51.2 miles) Frasassi Caves (Grotte di Frasassi; Fiume-Vento karst system; Grotta del Fiume-Grotta Grande del Vento karst complex; Grotta Grande del Vento), Genga, Ancona Province, Marche, Italy
82.4km (51.2 miles) Monte Rovello, Allumiere, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Lazio, Italy
98.2km (61.0 miles) Le Cetine di Cotorniano Mine, Chiusdino, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy
References
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Fe TeO OH fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3...Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4...CO/3 OH blue micro crystals on rock. (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) £2.00 lx H £3.50 2 076 CALEDONITE...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...217 ANDORITE Pb Ag Sb S pure grey metallic mass (San Jose Hine, Oruro Bolivia) 6x6 mm £3 039 BINDHEIMITE
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plates on Sandine (arrowed).(le Tre Croci Vetralla Italy) Ixlins £4.50 396 TORBERNITE Cu UO PO/4 slightly...Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4...OH good blue micro crystals on rock (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) 14 X 14 £2.00 lx 14 £3.50 2 ...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) S x « £2 219 MARICOPAITE Pb
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cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Hendips,Somerset) ij X l El.60 1 x H E2.50 200...creaP.1ymasses with Doehraite or Diaspo!E. (Saga Quarry, Tveoulen ~or~ayi lxl f.l.?.O lx2 f.2.7.0 7.x2E4...in Cavities In Basalt. (Vitiello Quarry, near Terzigno, Vesuvlus Italy) 1 x 1/2ins f5 1/2 x 1/2 f2.50 462...crystals on Matrix. (Vispi Quarry,near San Venanzo Terni Province, U!Rbria,Italy) ½ x ½ El \' lxl El...~roup pure ;ihi te ;'ib:::ou~vei;, :;ectio;1s (0ean Quarry, Lizard Corn~Jlll lx2 E2 2x2 E4 2x3 E6 (Ji.01;0
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Possible micro Thorite. {Vetralla ,Viterbo Province Lazio Region, Italy) M x M £4.50 103 CHURCHITE Y yttrium...cleavages 1·1ith cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Herehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) ½ X ½ £1.60 1 X ½ £2.50 200...creamy masses with Boehmite or Diaspore. ( Saga Quarry, Tvedalen Norway) lxl £1.20 lx2 £2.20 2x2 £4.40...cavities in matrix (Lagno Amendolare, l1t Somma, Italy) ½ x ½ ins £5 481 PHILLIP9ITE Zeolite group white...in Cavities In Basalt. (Vitiello Quarry, near Terzigno, Vesuvius Italy) 1/2 x 1/2 £2.50 1 x l/2ins £5 462
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dunkelrote, prismat./nadellgeXX, selten Hyallt (afarbloNr Opal) S MM Feuerberg bel HohenfelsNVestelfel tor Vulkaneifel...extrem selten (LAPIS 5/94) S MM Bellerberg/Eifel; Vispi, S.Venanzo/ltalien analysiert, fOr Eifel extrem...Ramsbeck/Sauerld.; Gr.Fischb.WenSan Piero in Campo, Elba/ltalien Vaterit S MM Bellerberg...Bellerberg,Ettringen/Eifel Weloganit S MM Francon Quarry bei MontreaUCanada S MM Bellerberg+ Graulai/Eifel;
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group. assive pale grey-green mixture (CountyBridge Quarry, Lizard) lxl 90p lx2 El.50 2x2 E3.00 50? BEHEllTITEn... 29? t ~ROL E Zeollte grou c·n wectio s (ue u Quarry, Liz rd Cornwall) lx7 f.~ 2 2 ft, 2 :3 EG ptr·...gro p small I it crystals on Hatri .. {Vispi Quarr , near San en nzo ern: Pro ince, Urbria, ltaly) 1/2...en matrix (Praborna Mine,St Marcel, Val d' Aosta Italy) lxl 70p lx2 El.30 2x2 E3.00 019 ANDALUSITE Al Silicate...BARYTES pure golden brown cleavage. (Fullers earth Quarry Redhill, Surrey) lxl 50p lx2 El.OD 050 BEIDELLITE
Book
mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...containing fresh glass, montmorillonite clay, and opal; a transition zone (up to 20 mOl thick) composed...(up to 12 meters thick) that contains fresh glass, opal, and montmorillonite; a middle zone (up to 10 meters...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...spring areas. Chabazite, phillipsite, natrolite, opal, chalcedony, calcite, apophyllite, and plombierite
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mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...containing fresh glass, montmorillonite clay, and opal; a transition zone (up to 20 mOl thick) composed...(up to 12 meters thick) that contains fresh glass, opal, and montmorillonite; a middle zone (up to 10 meters...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...spring areas. Chabazite, phillipsite, natrolite, opal, chalcedony, calcite, apophyllite, and plombierite
Journal (issue)
Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Rome, Italy †Meggen, Lucerne, Switzerland. Among various scapolite...Gemmological Institute, Rome, Italy of Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Rome, Italy National Committee...Committee for Nuclear Energy, Rome, Italy Institute INTRODUCTION It is well known that varieties of coral—rubrum...Notes on recent synthetics and the blackening of opal, J.Gemm., XII, 309-11. Scala, C. M., and Hutton...grading notation. M.O'D. BALL (R. A.). Common opal andpotch opal. Aust.Gemmol., 14, 11, 305-10, 7 figs, 1982
Catalog/List
Sn Sb S Rich grey silvery platy mass in matrix (San Jose Mine,Oruro, Bolivia) 1cm t4 Very rich 2cm piece...plates on Sandine (arrowed).(le Tre Croci Vetralla Italy) lxlins £4.50 , ; •t 485 WODGINITE Mn Sn Ta 0 �...Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx½ins £4 051...with micro spots of ·Nat.i ve Copper . (Hingston Quarry, Cornwall ) lxl £2 553 TETRAHEDERI TE ( Cu Fe )...cleavages with ce,ussite and or Pyr olusite (Merehead Quarry , Hend ips, Somerset ) % X ½ £2 106 HALLES'l'IGITE
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sapphire marketed by Chatham Created Gems, Inc., San Francisco, U.S.A. (10 x ). 700 600 500 400 ...flux-grown synthetic orange sapphire made by the San Francisco firm, (transmitted light, 30 x ) 402...which was presented to them by C. F. Chatham, of San Francisco, U.S.A. Acknowledged also are the excellent...carat diamond discovered at Tancheng, Shandong Province in China. The same area produced 158.78 and 124...NOTICES OBITUARY Mr E. R. Bohe, F.G.A. (D. 1956), San Diego, Ca, U.S.A., died on 2nd March, 1984. Mr Leslie
Book (volume)
Ca2B4O4(OH)7Cl·7H2O Locality: Salar de Carcote deposit, El Loa province, Antofagasta, Chile. Description: Colourless crystal...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta province, Argentina (type locality). Description: Colourless...District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar. Description: Grey grains from the...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta Province, Argentina. Description: Colourless crystal. Identified... Locality: Larderello, Val di Cecina, Tuscany, Italy (type locality). Description: White powdery aggregate
Journal (issue)
in August 1983 had attacked a mine in Zambezia Province, where they had killed two Soviet geologists and... Rome, Italy. and Professor O. GR UBESSI Istituto di Mineralogia, University of Rome, Italy. INTRODUCTION...for use. In the left D 65 compartment a large fire-opal rests on a plate. Two forms of rotatable stone-holder...illuminant D 65 at the time of the experiments. For the 'opal-tests' twenty-eight observers had to make their...Chrysoprase, apatite and jasper were sought and fire opal found. R.K.M. BROWN (G.). The assessment of gemstone
Journal (volume)
(Romania) (Slovakia) (China) (Germany) (Poland) (Italy) (Czech Republic) (Romania/USA) (Germany) (Hungary)...Terra, Università di Pavia, Italy (*michele.zema@unipv.it) 2 CNR-IGG, Pavia, Italy 3 Bayerisches Geoinstitut...5 1 Dept. of Chemistry, University of Florence, Italy (*dibenefr@geo.unifi.it) 2 Inst. for Materials Science...University of Florence, Italy 4 Inst. for Physico-Chemical Processes, CNR, Italy 5 Inst. of Geological... Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy (*dmalf@unimore.it) The aim of this work is to prepare
 
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