| Locality type: | Glacier |
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| Species: | Zircon |
| Formula: | Zr(SiO4) |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Titanite | ⓘ1 photo of Zircon associated with Titanite at this locality. |
| Quartz | ⓘ1 photo of Zircon associated with Quartz at this locality. |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Zircon data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Triolet Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (3 photos) |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 298875 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:298875:7 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | f7432eae-af55-44d6-9524-b0b5eb567a27 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Zircon |
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| 6.6km (4.1 miles) | ⓘAiguille de l'A Neuve, La Fouly, Ferret Valley, Orsières, Entremont, Valais, Switzerland |
| 9.3km (5.8 miles) | ⓘPunta Helbronner, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy |
| 11.9km (7.4 miles) | ⓘBrenva Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy |
| 20.2km (12.6 miles) | ⓘTête Noire, Trient, Martigny, Valais, Switzerland |
| 20.4km (12.7 miles) | ⓘLex Blanche Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy |
| 21.0km (13.1 miles) | ⓘBalayer, Finhaut, Saint-Maurice, Valais, Switzerland |
| 22.6km (14.0 miles) | ⓘChez Larze, Mont Chemin mining district, Martigny, Valais, Switzerland |
| 26.6km (16.5 miles) | ⓘLes Petits Perrons, La Creusaz, Les Marécottes, Salvan, Saint-Maurice, Valais, Switzerland |
| 31.9km (19.8 miles) | ⓘComba de la Sassa (Comba della Sassa; Sassa Valley), Bionaz, Aosta Valley, Italy |
| 40.1km (24.9 miles) | ⓘPraborna Mine, Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy |
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| Reference Search (possible matching items) |
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 | | Book | | crystals from 2 to 5 cm across occur with good brown zircon crystals (Britvin, Ivanyuk andYakovenchuk, 1995;...is the source of the large, lustrous, rich brown zircon crystals which arguably are world's best for the...matrix of white albite, sometimes with the brown zircon crystals. Evseev (1995a) gives 11 cm as the maximum... associated with crystals of corundum, rutile, zircon and magnetite. Russian scientists have made detailed...acicular crystals of rutile (Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas] |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DUBOIS13 1 OGS, Borgo grotta Gigante 42/c Sgonico, Italy, (*correspondence: faccaino@ogs.trieste.it) 2 University...element (REE+Y, HFSE)-bearing accessory minerals (zircon, fluorite, Nb-bearing Ti oxide, REE-fluoro-carbonate)...rock avalanche in Val Ferret (Mont Blanc Massif, Italy) N. AKÇAR1*, S. IVY-OCHS2, P. DELINE3, P.W. KUBIK2...of their cattle in the upper Ferret valley (Mont Blanc Massif, Italy). A rock volume larger than 10 million...million m3 and a huge volume of ice from Triolet glacier were mobilized by this avalanche [1]. Composed |
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Triolet Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy