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Gypsum from
Bosco Mine, San Cataldo sulphur mines, San Cataldo (San Cattaldo), Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bosco Mine, San Cataldo sulphur mines, San Cataldo (San Cattaldo), Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1317993
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1317993:9
GUID (UUID V4):05482483-5043-4605-b32a-f4fb4954d3a8
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
0.3km (0.2 miles) San Cataldo potash mine, San Cataldo (San Cattaldo), Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
1.5km (0.9 miles) Stincone Mine, San Cataldo sulphur mines, San Cataldo (San Cattaldo), Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
1.8km (1.1 miles) Apaforte Mine, San Cataldo sulphur mines, San Cataldo (San Cattaldo), Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
3.0km (1.9 miles) Rabbione Mine (Rabione Mine), Serradifalco, Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
4.7km (2.9 miles) Barbaraso Mine, San Cataldo sulphur mines, San Cataldo (San Cattaldo), Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
5.4km (3.3 miles) Gabbara mines, San Cataldo sulphur mines, San Cataldo (San Cattaldo), Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
6.0km (3.8 miles) Nadurello Caico Sociale Mine, Montedoro, Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
6.9km (4.3 miles) Stazzone Mine (Stazzone Sociale Mine), Montedoro, Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
7.7km (4.8 miles) Rainieri salt mine, Belici salt deposit, Mussomeli, Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
8.2km (5.1 miles) Grottarossa Mine (Grotta Rossa Mine), Caltanissetta, Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
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Spain by F. Vazquez Guzman Portugal by D. Thadeu Italy by P. Zuffardi European part of the U.S.S.R. by...Al, Mg, REEs Non-metallic commodiries Pyrite, sulphur, phosphates, borates, potash, salt, diamond, graphite...feldspar, asbestos, talc, barite, fluorite, celesrine, gypsum, anhydrite, magnesite, bromine, bentonite, kaolin...Southwest Europe embraces France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Each volume has an introductory chapter of the...Alpine domain Jura Alps Apennines Calabria and Sicily Betic Cordillera . Iberian Cordillera Pyreneo-Proven
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Fifty cents VIBURNUM POTASH AFRICAN mining in Sicily is highly mechanized Mining Congress great success...SUORRODERRENONDORAORANDAN HONHOEELELEREAGEODOD lead mine catches eyes of industry » 18 demand causes concern... No. 27 mine in Missouri lead mine in the bination of men, Montecatini’s equipment San is the most...today and Cataldo important new under- because of an efficient com- ideas potash oo mine in Sicily...Sicily, the world’s newest potash producer, mines steeply dipping beds by sub-level stoping ... Humorous
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subject. I wrote to geological surveys. bureaus of mines. embassies. political leaders. and friends and acquaintances.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ." Italy. • . • . • • . . . . • . . • . . . . . . . . . .... . . .. .. .. .. .. . . .. .. . . .. .. . .... San Marino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • • •...Germany - Zechstein Basin ....••••.•.•...•.•••••••••• Italy - Salt Resources . . . . . • . • . • . • • • . •.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . Sicily - San Cataldo Salt Deposit . . . . . . . . . . . . . •
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museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...Gottlob Werner (1750-1817), a German geologist. Gypsum (Chihuahua, Mexico) ._23- As mineralogists studied...are soft and soluble in dilute acids. Sulphates Sulphur is found as the pure element, as the anion S2~...and the variable hardness usually low. Metal and sulphur atoms link in a variety of structures, more commonly...Quartz 6 Feldspar 5 Apatite 4 Fluorite 3 Calcite 2 Gypsum 1 Talc All that the scale tells us is that mineral
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do Sul, Brazil * 12.5 x 10 x 10.5 em Page 252: Gypsum rosette, Red River floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba... MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm...resulting in well-formed collectible crystals such as gypsum (page 252) and epidote (page 221). Solid crystal-filled...collectively as zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS:...mineral’s physical properties in order to identify Gypsum it. Many minerals have very characteristic physical
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northern Andean Cordillera, in Zamora-Chinchipe province, southeastern Ecuador. The district contains two...assumed age equivalence, with the well-dated Panantza, San Carlos, and Sutzu porphyry copper deposits located...represent the same temporal event recorded at Panantza-San Carlos and Sutzu, as well as coeval porphyry, skarn...geology and assumed age equivalency with Panantza and San Carlos, which had been radiometrically dated (Coder...Ecuador’s capital city of Quito (Fig. 1), in the province of Zamora-Chinchipe. Elevations range from about
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ning in winter and summer in the southern parts of Italy, such not being the case elsewhere : —' Italia?...picture of Vesuvius as it appeared to a native of Sicily born within sight of iEtna. ' The whole region...god, somewhere near the hermitage or the cross of San Salvatore. The records of Vesuvius conduct us through...immediately the flames, and a strong smell of sulphur which was the forerunner of them, dispersed the...satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion of mine. But I absolutely refused to leave her, and taking
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Departamento de Geología, Universidad Nacional del Sur, San Juan 670, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina a r t i c...Cordillera Frontal and Precordillera of Mendoza Province, Argentina. The sedimentary rocks are represented...from the La Rioja Province to the Neuquén Province. Fig. 1 displays the area between San Juan and the central...of Mendoza Province. This intense igneous activity is known as the Choiyoi magmatic province (Kay et al...due to an important deformational event known as San Rafael diastrophic phase (Llambias and Sato, 1990
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ashes which destroyed the villages of O~tajano and San Giuseppe. The present crater corresponds closely...destroying the buildings there, and flowed towards Bosco-Treease. The lava which partly destroyed the last-named...red in colour, and glistening with crystals of gypsum. The whole country was absolutely desert, and was...Sunderland] at 17:51 28 December 2014 AMERICA. The San F r a n c i s c o E a r t h q u a k e . - - A n article...an embryonic range of mountains, " o f which the San Francisco and other earthquakes are the birth-throes
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wulfenite and other minerals from the Bwlch-Glas mine, Central Wales ....................151 by R.S.W....................171 by K. Kota I Crystallized gypsum from the playa lake clays of L a k e G ille s ...people: telephone: COVER: ADAMITE from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mex­ ico; collected in 1981. The...Belgium: Paul Van Hee Marialei 43 B-2120 Schoten Italy: Renato Pagano Via S. Anna 1/B 1-34074 Monfalcone...Saul Krotki and Kathleen Nowell of Krotki Iron Mines (P.O. Box 42793, Los Angeles, CA 90042). The models
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231 - RIO DE JANEIRO MINES AND MINERALS IN BRAZIL --= ··--· ··-­ ·-·=- MINES AND MINERALS IN BRAZIL................................................. Gypsum .............· ..................................the new Code of Mines, of which the most important items are given below: CODE OF MINES Classification...Classification and utilization of deposits and mines Art. 1. - For the effects of this Code distinction must be made...be or may come to be of value for industry; II . Mine (Mina) i. e. the deposit in the extent conceded
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crystals * Adsorptional hindering of growth layers. a. Gypsum. b. Potassium ferricyanide. Length 8 cm. 2 Obelisc-likectystals...is how barrel-like calcite crystals, lenticular gypsum crystals, and rounded diamonds are formed. Rather...at the same time imposing one over another as in gypsum, cassiterite, and plagioclases. cal changes of...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...men worked earlier at phlogopite and vermiculite mines. The latter are fairly numerous over this region
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Geoenvironmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Continental evaporites are deposits that originate...Università di Bologna, Via Zamboni 67, 40126 Bologna, Italy. E-mail: roberto.barbieri@unibo.it that near surface...have generally transparent or light colouration: gypsum, for example, consists of clear, translucent crystals...frequently found in very ancient deposits. From the salt mines of the Permian and Triassic age, archaeal halophiles...distribution of cyanobacteria, colourless sulphur and purple sulphur bacteria and, ultimately, sulphate-reducing
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CREDITO LOMBARDO, AG ENCY E. ACCO UNf 6908/4, MILANO, ITALY. -Please send COPY of your remittance document whit... _II materiale proveniente dalla "volata" delle mine viene caricato dalle pale frontati e gettato entro...LATTANZI P., (1981): Pyritic ores of Southern Tuscany, Italy. Proc. lnJernaJ. Con/ Appl. Mineral., (!CAM 81)... P., (1983): Pyritic ores of Southern Tuscany, Italy Geol. Soc. SAfr, Spee. Pub!., 7, 315-323. 43 - BELIGN...and assocll!ted country rocks, Southern Tuscany, Italy. Chon. Erd.e, 43, 5764. 46 - INNOCENTI M., LATTANZI
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particular note is an exceptional Sulfur specimen from Italy – a tremendously large crystal on matrix. There...museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...Auction 2 53001 CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority...Caledonite and a dash of azure blue Linarite. The mine is now collapsed and only a memory for the lucky
 
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