 | Ferrando, Simona, Frezzotti, Maria Luce, Orione, Paolo, Conte, Riccardo Carlo, Compagnoni, Roberto (2010) Late-Alpine rodingitization in the Bellecombe meta-ophiolites (Aosta Valley, Italian Western Alps): evidence from mineral assemblages and serpentinization-derived H2-bearing brine. International Geology Review, 52 (10) 1220-1243 doi:10.1080/00206810903557761 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Late-Alpine rodingitization in the Bellecombe meta-ophiolites (Aosta Valley, Italian Western Alps): evidence...Torino , Turin, Italy b Department of Earth Sciences , University of Siena , Siena, Italy Published online:...Late-Alpine rodingitization in the Bellecombe metaophiolites (Aosta Valley, Italian Western Alps): evidence...Late-Alpine rodingitization in the Bellecombe meta-ophiolites (Aosta Valley, Italian Western Alps): evidence...Torino, Turin, Italy; b Department of Earth Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy Downloaded by |  | | Report (issue) | | Arkenstone came up with 20 or so superb cabinet-size prehnite specimens from a late 2010 find in the famous...boys, early in life, how to dig for zeolites, prehnite, apophyllite, amethyst etc. in the classic basalt...the 2010 discovery made a great swansong: the prehnite specimens came from a series of large pockets...medium apple-green prehnite “fingers” distinctly show faces of individual prehnite crystals, and sharp...themselves have hollow tubes down their middles, the prehnite having coated now-gone anhydrite crystals; in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Benedetto del Tronto, near Ancona on the east coast of Italy. His interest in minerals was sparked when as a...parents in Valle d’Aosta in the Alps in northern Italy. As a teenager he was introduced to his mother’s...mineral enthusiasts he visited many localities in Italy, among them the Latera Volcanic Complex around Pitigliano...especially grossular, vesuvianite, pectolite, and prehnite (Horváth, Pfenninger-Horváth, and Spertini 2013)...perimeter. At the end of 1997 Amabili returned to Italy and a professorship at the University of Parma. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (below left). Clear dodecahedra of grossular with prehnite, 7 × 6 cm, from the Jeffrey mine, Québec, Canada...include aegirine, allanite, calcite, epidote, prehnite, titanite, and microcline (Horváth and Gault 1990)...may be associated with diopside, quartz, augite, prehnite, and laumontite. It has been a long time since...have come from the Uncle Billy Rogers mine, Hope Valley, Alpine County. For those into the lapidary arts...one immediately thinks of the Alps, particularly Italy. Every major museum in the world has specimens from |  | | Catalog/List | | acid leached Calcite; 3.3x3.2x2.5-$9.00 M540.Bellecombe, Val D'Aosta, /ta/y; (a) good M/M or T/N; lustrous...prism section; 5.7x5x3.3-$6.25 LIMONITE;M573.Sq(ine Valley,Calj[omiq:(a) sharp pseudomorphs afler Pyrite cubes...massive Vesuvianite; 6.3x5.8x3.9-$3.25 M542.Bellecombe, Aosta Valley, ltaly; (a) good MIM or TIN; rich cover...5BERGITE;G323.Peretq Mine,Grosseto Prov., Tuscqny, Italy:(a) 10 mag. MIM white needles in a few small vug...8xl-$15.00 MICROLJTE;G384. Vqlngezzo, Lombardia. Italy;(a) sharp dark 50 mag. MIM xl on a white matrix; |  | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | sFlecimen. 2xl~x1t", £4.75p 22. CASSITERITE. Kinta Valley, Malaya. Select heavy crystalline mass of unusual...£6.5Op, 42. HEMATITE. Rio Marina, Is~e of Elba, Italy. Sharp bright black lenticular crystals to 1" ~n...£r. 50p 44. IDDCRASE. Val Camonica, ~iedmont, Italy. Lustrous light brownish sharp crystals to ~" in...calcite. 2' 2x1", £8.00 45. IDCCRASE. Bellecombe, Piedmont, Italy. Fine bright dark olive coloured crystals...50p each. 52. MAGNETITE. Traversella, Piedmont, Italy. Bright black sharp complex crystals to t" in size |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Quaternary sediments cover the molasse deposits. prehnite + tremolite ± vesuvianite ± epidote. They display...as well as its clear and unaltered appearance. Prehnite forms fibrous overgrowths on clinopyroxene and...whereas local veinlets filled with calcite, epidote, prehnite and opaque minerals traverse the samples. 3.1...mineral assemblage chlorite + garnet + diopside + prehnite + tremolite ± clinozoisite ± talc. The GDR locally...overgrowths on plagioclase (Fig. 2f). Fibrous prehnite is superimposed on clinopyroxene and is associated |  | | Journal (issue) | | Williams Minerals of the Alpine Rodingites of Italy ............................ 85 By C. M. Gramaccioli...that occur as fine display specimens, notably prehnite, pectolite, apophyllite, vesuvianite, diopside...assemblages (grossular, vesuvianite, diopside, prehnite, zoisite, chlorite) of hydrothermal origin. The...mineral assemblages. The occurrence of the grossular-prehnite-epidote group-vesuvianitediopside assemblage at...the habit usually associated with this mineral. Prehnite is common as green botryoidal masses but at this |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | al. (1911) to describe an assemblage of dillage-prehnite-grossular garnet in the CR form of veins in...essential minerals in rodingite (e.g. garnet and prehnite) are lacking. Coleman (1977) ED and Leach and...on the T rodingite assemblage (garnet-zoisite-prehnite-inosilicate). This variety of tourmaline- IP...generation are invaded by thin veinlets of calcite and prehnite. CE Also, the coarse garnet occurs as poikiloblastic...the “fossilized” or ancient Ligurian example in Italy, and AN the nowadays Atlantic and Indian Oceans |  | | Journal (issue) | | Percorso un breve tratto della statale in direzione di Aosta, si devia a sinistra per Saint-Marcel, poi Plut...centimetro; spesso è accompagnata da presunta prehnite. Un filone in alto a sinistra, al limite dei tagli...ventagli che raramente raggiungono il cm.; la prehnite, che forma aggregati cristallizzati di un bellissimo...QUARZO OPALE(JALITE)-ALBITE-CALCITE-STILBITE-PREHNITE-FLUORITE NOVARA ALVANI VALLE STRONA PENTLANDI...Specimens Minerali del Piemonte e della Valle d' Aosta Associazione Piemontese di Mineralogia e Paleontologia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 4-cm dark green crystal in marble from the Koksha Valley, Badakhshan Province. In neighboring Pakistan very...from Alchuri (sometimes spelled Alchori), Shigar Valley, Baltistan. The crystals in the collection are...at Hashupa (sometimes spelled Hashupi), Shigar Valley, Baltistan. The crystals in the Smithsonian collection...(variety hessonite), from Val d’Ala, Torino Province, Italy. Arkenstone specimen, Joe Budd photo. a fine example...the Italian Alps. The famous Piemonte region of Italy is noted among mineral cognoscenti for its diopside |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | diopside, chlorite, epidote, zoisite, tremolite, prehnite and others [7–11]. Rodingites have been disregarded...Basaltic Rocks in Serpentinites, East Liguria, Italy. Contr. Mineral. Petrol. 1983, 84, 146–151. [CrossRef]...Late-Alpine Rodingitization in the Bellecombe MetaOphiolites (Aosta Valley, Italian Western Alps): Evidence...Rodingitization of Ophiolitic Bodies from Northern Apennines (Italy): Constraints from Petrography, Geochemistry and...Mafic-Ultramafic Contacts in Valmalenco (Rhetic Alps, N-Italy). Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt. 2002, 82, 515–536 |  | | Catalog/List | | AROUND THE WORLD: ANATASE - ITALY: From Solara Vai Nure, Piacenza, Italy. Microcrystalline anatase coating...and priced at $3.00 each. B APOPHYLLITE -- & PREHNITE: Bombay and Poona, India: Fine quality miniatures...each CALCITE - GOLDEN: Cairo Montenotte, Savona, Italy: Dogtooth crystal of white calcite with a golden...INCLUDED QUARTZ: Jackpot Hill, Calaveras River, Valley Springs, Calaveras County, California: Really neat...EPIDOTE AND DIOPSIDE: VAL ANTRONA. DOMODOSSOLA, ITALY: Showy specimens of light to medium green epidote |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | silicates, such as garnet, secondary clinopyroxene, prehnite, epidote, clinozoisite, and vesuvianite (e.g....minerals mainly comprise chlorite, epidote, and prehnite. Rodingites usually exhibit fine-grained porphyritic...Late-Alpine rodingitization in the Bellecombe metaophiolites (Aosta Valley, Italian Western Alps): Evidence |  | | Catalog/List | | $25.00 81B24 PREHNITE, Westfield, Massachusetts. (a) attractive uniform sea-green prehnite with botryoidal...$35.00 (L) 81B34 DIOPSIDE, Val D'ala, Piedmont Italy. (a) pale green diopside crystal (2 x 0 8 x 0. 8...$25.00 81B38 VESUVIANITE, Banchetti Mt., Bellecombe, Italy. Exceptional clusters of vesuvianite. Sharp...(Var. of Saponite), Zebedassi, Volpedo, Voghera, Italy. (a) glass vial (6.5 cm) half full of zebedassite...ANEMOUSITE, (var. of anorthite), Mt. Rossa, Linosa, Italy. (a) crystal sections (4-1cm) ••• $5.00 (L) 0 0 |  | | Catalog/List | | $3,00 each. M£LANOPHLOGITE: Fortulllno, Llvorno, Italy; world class specimens of thls rare mineral �s 1/8...Procamalus sp., Miocene, 6 to 10 million years old, Bone Valley Formation, Florida. Yup, camels used to be native...polylithlonite. Nice. $25.00 PERICI..INE: Val Aurina, Italy; on chlorite schist; milky white crystals of this...plagioclase feldspar, found in alpine crevices In Italy. 3 n 2.6 >< 2.6 inches in size with very nice crystallization...PYRITOH EDRON PLATE: Bacino Mine, Elba Island, Italy; A 3 x 2 x 1 inch plate of lustrous showy pyritohedrons |  | | Book (volume) | | in aghi sottili, anche in Val d ' Aosta (Montjo vet e Bellecombe presso Saint Vincent, Monte Rosso di...rararnente nella miniera di Saint Marcel in Val d' Aosta, come localita unica al mon do. Il violano e stato...triclina, fu trovato a Saint Marcel i n Val d' Aosta, insieme a molto materiale compatto. Wollastonite...zon e di contatto (Val d'Ala, Val Malenco, Val d' Aosta, Monte Ceneri, ecc. ) associata per lo piu a granato...anche nelle rodingiti di Saint Vincent (Val d ' Aosta), associato ad hessonite e calcite. e Babingtonite |  | | Journal (issue) | | 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 Italy: Renato Pagano Via S. Anna 1/B I-34074 Monfalcone...railroad follow the valley of the Rio Copiapo and all the inhabitants live in the valley and use the water...the sides of the valley rise steeply in rocky terraces at the lower end of the valley. As we approached...The mine we wished to go to was just across the valley, a matter of perhaps a kilometer from the road...cluding collector-quality grossular, vesuvianite, prehnite, cerussite, epidote and lazurite have been found |  | | Journal (issue) | | 2 cm. It is typically associated with quartz, prehnite, datolite, apophyllite, laumontite and copper...Figure 24. Babingtonite crystals with copper and prehnite, 1-cm view, from the Cliff mine. This specimen... Figure 25. Calcite crystals with epidote and prehnite, 6.5 cm, from the Cliff mine. Ex John T. Reeder...finds of crystals approaching 5 mm in open vugs in prehnite have been made during the last five years or so...photo. Figure 29. Copper, twinned crystal on prehnite, 0.8 mm, from the Cliff mine. John Jaszczak collection |  | | Journal (issue) | | grossular (“hessonite”) garnets and some of the best prehnite, pectolite and vesuvianite specimens in the world...mimic the morphology of claudetite from Imperial Valley, California as illustrated by Palache (1934), shown... Figure 5. Epidote twin, 2 cm, from Piemonte, Italy. Isaias Casanova photo; J. S. White collection....pyrite cuboctahedron from Traversella, Piedmont, Italy has, dead in the middle of each octahedron face...Traversella mine, Traversella, Chiusella Valley, Piemonte, Italy. Isaias Casanova photo; J. S. White collection |  | | Journal (issue) | | Wisconsin’s early lead mines in the Upper Mississippi Valley district (Mineral Point and others). The animal...Science Museum at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, Menasha, Wisconsin. When the Weis Museum was being...of the Black Forest, overlooking the Rhine River Valley near the Swiss and French borders. The region is...with quartz, 8 cm, from Ghundao Hill, Shamozai Valley near Katlang, Mardan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...Scapolite on marble, 5 cm, from Sar-e-Sang, Koksha Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Wildfang Collection; |  | | Catalog/List | | particular note is an exceptional Sulfur specimen from Italy – a tremendously large crystal on matrix. There...development called the Tessin Habit after a place in Italy where it was first noticed. The central crystal... 53014 VESZELYITE Black Pine Mine, Flint Creek Valley, John Long Mountains, Philipsburg Dist., Granite... 53020 ENARGITE Leonard Mine, Butte, Butte (Summit Valley District), Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA Butte,...phenomenon is the Bristol Copper Mine of the Connecticut Valley that tapped some very rich Copper ore during its |  | | Journal (issue) | | oxide and associated niobian rutile from Topaz Valley, Utah............................................constrain both the source and history of a water (Valley et al., 1986). When the 5D values are plotted verses...United States. Mineralogical Record, 21, 203-213. VALLEY, J. W., TAYLOR, H. P. JR., and O ’NEIL, J. R. (editors)...of Mines, Paris, France; the University of Rome, Italy Mineralogical Museum (“La Sapienza”); the Manchester... complexly modified dodecahedrons, from the Ah Valley, Italian Piedmont. There was also a terrific 15-cm |
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Bellecombe, Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy