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Demantoid from
Malenco Valley, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy


Locality type:Valley
Classification
Species:Andradite var: Demantoid
Formula:Ca3Fe23+(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Serpentine Subgroup11 photos of Demantoid associated with Serpentine Subgroup at this locality.
Serpentinite11 photos of Demantoid associated with Serpentinite at this locality.
Asbestos5 photos of Demantoid associated with Asbestos at this locality.
Tremolite3 photos of Demantoid associated with Tremolite at this locality.
Chrysotile2 photos of Demantoid associated with Chrysotile at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Demantoid data
Locality Data:Click here to view Malenco Valley, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (70 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:32708
Long-form Identifier:1:3:32708:6
GUID (UUID V4):a3803b84-4444-4197-9e74-48e34e842e8e
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Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by |GDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...danburite 114, //5 datolite 80, 82, 82 dawsonite 47 demantoid 77, 78 descloizite 66, 66 desmine 122 destinezite...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States it is...Filiform silver: Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) endritic copper rmation. Houghton fichigan) ...covered with calcite. Casteltermini, Agrigento (Italy) look more different. Theirs is the most notable
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with Orbis Publishing Limited abcdefgh Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara Adapted from the original Italian...danburite 114, 1/5 datolite 80, 82, 82 dawsonite 47 demantoid 77,78 descloizite 66, 66 desmine 122 destinezite...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States it...Filiform silver. Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) Dendritic copper famous (Michigan) 1822. It...covered with calcite. Casteltermini, Agrigento (Italy) and diopsids. Other famous mines are Dutoitspan
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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
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(variety cleavelandite) crystals from the Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Colorless, transparent...crystals on microcline, 5.5 cm, from the Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Trinity Minerals specimen...vesuvianite from Bellecombe, Aosta Valley, northeasternmost Italy. The sharp, lustrous, sometimes gemmy...some good matrix specimens of andradite variety demantoid—bright green crystals to 1 cm—from another classic...Sferlun mine, Malenco Valley, Sondria, Lombardy. Vesuvianite, 3 cm, from Bellecombe, Aosta, Italy. Your Mineral
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Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...danburite I 14, 115 datolite 80., 82, 82 dawsonite 47 demantoid 77, 78 descloizite 66, 66 desmine 122 destinezile...(Yugoslavia), son1e n1ines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almaden (Spain). In the United States it is...11 silver. Nico la Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia ( Italy) ?ndri1ic copper ,·,nation. Houghton fichigan)...covered with calcite. Casteltern1ini, Agrigento ( Italy) look more different. Theirs is the most notable
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Deposits of Demantoid Around the World 22 Ambanja (Madagascar) – A New Source of Gem 22 Demantoid Garnet...Ko India: Mehul Durlabhji Israel: Yehuda Kassif Italy: Rocco Gay Japan: Fujio Takada Kenya: Susie Kennedy...of Changle Gemological Association of Shandong Province;; and Yu Xiaojin, ICA Ambassador from China. www...gem tour, were discovered on a farm in Shaanxi Province in 1974. The incredible figures date back to the...15 MININ G Major Deposits of Demantoid Around the World Demantoid is a very rare—and the most expensive—variety
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321-332 Horse-tail inclusions in demantoid garnet from Val Malenco, Italy Paul W.O. Hoskin, Rodney H. Grapes...Gem-quality bottle-green demantoid garnet from Val Malenco, northern Italy, may contain fibrous hair-like...(1993). Although the presence of chromium in demantoid may be a primary cause of colour, our observations...members of the garnet group of minerals. The name, demantoid, is derived from the Dutch word demant which means...in the past by royalty. For example, detrital demantoid from the Bobrovka River, Russia, adorns jewellery
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Tucson 2020 • Burmese star peridot • Top-quality demantoid • Russian emerald • Nephrite from multiple sources...2020 Tucson gem shows, including star peridot, demantoid garnet, emerald, sapphire, trapiche gems, Tucson’s...turtle in figure 5, unearthed at Xiaotun in Henan Province, is a successful example of Qiaose (Yang et GEMS...Goshenite Shigar Valley, Pakistan Near-colorless PK-5 Goshenite Shigar Valley, Pakistan Near-colorless...PK-10 Goshenite Shigar Valley, Pakistan Colorless PK-8 Aquamarine Shigar Valley, Pakistan Near-colorless
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38 Gem-Quality Serpentine from Val Malenco, Central Alps, Italy Ilaria Adamo, Valeria Diella, Rosangela...with gem potential from Pizzo Tremogge in Val Malenco, Italy. Next, Dr. Andrey Litvinenko and his coauthors... le Oat SOUTH AUSTRALIA QUEENSLAND Central Province ys NSW SYDNEY Creek VICTORIA e intyr Mac ...mineralogy and gemology at the University of Pavia in Italy. Prof. Gilg is professor at the chair of engineering...association from the Roncadeira pegmatite, Borborema Province, Brazil: Implications for gemstone exploration
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Colorado contains none of the Basin and Range Province that provides a geological environment conducive...He collected minerals in nearly every state and province in the U.S. and Canada. Fora time he lived in...documented in Baskin's History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado (1881), which states that "for ten years...California, where he worked as a gold miner in Lake Valley, El Dorado County. William C. Hart (1849-1936)...Bermanite from Arizona? We have lt! Demantoid garnet xls from Italy? We have theml Plumocite from Trepca
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instrumentation such as LA-ICPMS—once primarily the province of academia—became a fixture in many gemological...militant Taliban were forcing residents of the Swat Valley, which had been closed for nearly a decade, to...finance terrorist activities (“Emeralds from Swat Valley. . . ,” 2009). The decade also saw the rise in...garnets such as spessartine (e.g., Laurs, 2002b), demantoid (Laurs 2002a; Eddins 2010), and tsavorite (Mayerson...alternative green stones such as tsavorite or demantoid garnets (figure 16). In 2008, a controversial
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expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION...conditions in the gold-bearing "greenstone" in Abitibi province in northern Ontario and Quebec. Some genetic problems...byssolite. Mono- coast of North America: Kobuk River Valley, Alaska, clinic, C2/m, a,b,c = 9.89, 18.20, 5.31
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had been constructed in 1760 at the bottom of the valley. Up to that time, ore had been shipped to Zamovice...as well have applied to other lead mines in the province (e.g. the Hochobir mines, the Mezica mines, or...C O C assir\2~JStrT (part I) Carrara Marble (Italy), Marburg Museum (Germany) $1# $10 v.19/#4 Ichinokawa...(England) Darwin (CA), Pereta Mine (Italy), Cetine Mine (Italy) $10 Sterlin Burra n r ÂŁ n \ J m e...264-pages $24 v.25/#4 Blowpipe Analysis, Amo Valley (Italy), Widgiemooltha (Australia), Laurium (Greece)
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Federico Pezzotta (Natural History Museum, Milan, Italy), who was among the first to investigate this new...high for beryl, he sent samples to Dr. Pezzotta in Italy. Preliminary chemical analyses of two samples with...Federico Pezzotta (Natural History Museum, Milan, Italy) for supplying detailed information on the geology...France; Tom Cushman of Allerton Cushman & Co., Sun Valley, Idaho; Marc Jobin and Steve Jaquith of MJ3 Inc...) a new mineral of the beryl group from Latium (Italy). European Journal of Mineralogy, Vol. 12, pp. 121–127
 
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