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Calcite from
Brenva Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy


Locality type:Glacier
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Dolomite1 photo of Calcite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Brenva Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:285497
Long-form Identifier:1:3:285497:7
GUID (UUID V4):c7418e5a-eec5-4f9d-8555-df9165cca5a5
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
5.5km (3.4 miles) Trou des Romains (Chapy deposit), Sapin Valley, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
8.3km (5.2 miles) Aiguille du Gouter, Chamonix, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Bonneville, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
8.8km (5.5 miles) Colle San Carlo area (Col Saint-Charles area; Col d'Arpy area), Morgex, Aosta Valley, Italy
10.3km (6.4 miles) Aiguille des Glaciers, Estellette Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
10.7km (6.7 miles) Kiriaz (Chirriaz), Morgex, Aosta Valley, Italy
11.1km (6.9 miles) Aiguille de Talèfre southeast slope, Triolet Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
11.4km (7.1 miles) Talèfre Glacier, Chamonix, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Bonneville, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
11.9km (7.4 miles) Triolet Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
12.9km (8.0 miles) Tormottaz Lake (Tormotta Lake), La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy
13.4km (8.3 miles) Promise Mine (La Promise Mine; Biolley Mine), La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy
References
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SULFIDE MINERALS Sulfide minerals eral form as calcite. This mineral is the principal component of the...Magnetite Chalcocite Galena Pyrite Sphalerite Calcite Dolomite Anhydrite Gypsum Magnesite Nonferromagnesian...igneous. Landslides, wind, running water, and glacier ice all help to move the materials from one place...volcanoes, from modern Turkey through Greece into Italy and the islands of the ninsula, which points like...Oceans as well as in the mid-Pacific. Southern Italy, Iceland, and the African Rift system have eruptions
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Farafata, au N. de Tamatave, des veinules de calcite, pyrite, quartz, associés des plaquettes de xyloLile...tourmaline. J’ai étudié un échantillon formé de calcite, à plans de séparations basiques, dans lesquels... 18 MINÉRALOGIE DE LA FRANCE GROUPE DE LA CALCITE CALCITE{T. III, pp. 417, 803; T. IV, p.901). De...romanécliite, qui ont fourni les beaux cristaux de calcite décrits tome III, renferment Paris, des macles...quartz aurifère ont renfermé de gros cristaux de calcite {æ et aujourd’hui disparus ils sont représentés
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moved some distance down a valley, producing the appearance of a glacier. This is accomplished by the...MeCarshy Creek, Alaskg, The talus forming the rock glacier is derived from the high hours has been re- cliffs...supply of talus is too great for the stream in the valley to remove, the stream is dammed and a lake is...with pick and shovel at a depth of 80 feet. In the Valley of Virginia and in the Blue Grass regions of Kentucky...carried from the Sahara desert to Europe, reaching Italy on the second day of the storm, and Germany and
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than twice that of the two most common minerals, calcite (2-72) and quartz (2-65), and more than two thirds...greatest its depth the central, between Sardinia and Italy (separated from the eastern by relatively shallow...Sea, 1300 feet in the deepest part of the Jordan valley, and 29,002 feet high in Mount Everest of the...many peaks over 25,000 feet. In America, Death Valley, on the southeast border of California, descends...liilly. can continent, including the Mississippi valley, plain ; also the plains of the lands of Europe
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mountain-regions than by any precise altitude. The Mississippi Valley of the great interior region of the North American...in altitude north of the Mohawk (an east-andwest valley), and 2000 to 2500 feet south of this river: it...called the Coast Range, conBetween the two lie the valley of the Sacramento sisting of lower elevations.... 4.3. 5. Carbonates. Sulphates. 69. (22.) Calcite, or Carbonate of Lime. —Crystals rhombohedral...shells the pearly part is Aragonite, harder than calcite. G. form, and is then called Aragonite : it
 
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