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Talc from
Gabbro, Rosignano Marittimo, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Talc
Formula:Mg3Si4O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Talc data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gabbro, Rosignano Marittimo, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:411128
Long-form Identifier:1:3:411128:3
GUID (UUID V4):8ed2e781-1839-49ad-8495-4f3093d5c49f
Nearest other occurrences of Talc
2.6km (1.6 miles) Poggio alle Fate, Colognole, Collesalvetti, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
3.1km (1.9 miles) Colognole, Collesalvetti, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
5.1km (3.2 miles) Botro del Diavolo, Livorno, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
6.2km (3.9 miles) Castellaccio, Livorno, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
6.3km (3.9 miles) Rio Ardenza (Rio Popogna), Livorno, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
8.2km (5.1 miles) Poggio Corbolone, Livorno, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
8.9km (5.5 miles) Castiglioncello, Rosignano Marittimo, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
20.1km (12.5 miles) Rialdo, Riparbella, Pisa Province, Tuscany, Italy
26.0km (16.2 miles) Montecatini Mine (Caporciano Mine), Montecatini Val di Cecina, Pisa Province, Tuscany, Italy
37.0km (23.0 miles) La Striscia, Il Castagno, Gambassi Terme, Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geologia dell'Universitgt di Firenze, Florence (Italy) (Received August 1, 1968) SUMMARY Magmatic activity...not known. The Jurassic ophiolites (serpentinite, gabbro and diabase) were repeatedly moved westward by...(rhyolites to latites), and ignimbrites are known in Tuscany, and pyroclastics are predominant in northern Latium;...(Capraia Island) are Upper Miocene; in southwest Tuscany near the coast (Campiglia, Gavorrano, Roccastrada)...granitite with no potash feldspar (Poggio Caprone, Livorno). The alkaline granites of the olistostromes are
Book (edition)
MOHS TABLE OF HARDNESS minium powder ( + 1. TALC 6. 2. GYPSUM 7. ) 3. 4. 5. sulfur ^/sjpowder...(cerargyrite and gypsum). Other minerals are flexible (talc, molybdenite); others elastic so that if bent and...Mother-of-pearl or pearly (the micas and which talc), is slightly iridescent because part dispersed...sample of scheelite, coming from Traversella (Turin, Italy), in light natural (above) and exposed Other...small deposits are found near Pisa and Florence (Italy). Uses Native copper rarely occurs in large enough
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in ultramafic rocks in Narman province of Erzurum and Alacakaya province of Elazig. These rocks are most...thriving in Ophicalcites (lizardite, chrysotile) and talc, diopside and chromite accompanying these minerals...ultramafic rocks, serpen tine + magnesite, magnesite + talc and finally magnesite + quartz formations show the...of Erzurum province and around Altioluk village of Alacakaya district of Elazig province, were selected...They are partly cut by pyroxenite, gabbro and diabase dykes. Gabbro and cooling edged diabase dykes, which
Book (volume)
Spain by F. Vazquez Guzman Portugal by D. Thadeu Italy by P. Zuffardi European part of the U.S.S.R. by...graphite, quartz, calcite, mica, feldspar, asbestos, talc, barite, fluorite, celesrine, gypsum, anhydrite...Southwest Europe embraces France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Each volume has an introductory chapter of the...and siderite • Eastern Pyrenees Western Pyrenees Talc. Summary of zone C Corsica, Maures, Esterel, Provence...Catalan Basin Navarra Basin Quartz. Dunite. Feldspars Talc Baryte . Guillermin San Andres San Manuel San Fernando
Book
in order of increasing hardness (Mohs scale). 1. Talc 6. Orthoclase |e y i \ 7 ; OM at ? Metallic...volume, for practical reasons, we have MOHS SCALE TALC those minerals which can be scratched SPECIFIC...is an example of a poly- tites. been found in Italy (Sicily and Romagna), Diamond is found in South...Australia, Morocco, Zambia, the Balkan countries, Italy, etc. converted into beta-sulfur (monoclinic for...France. fi? A Sulfur (ca. x 1), Belisio, Pesaro, Italy. Octahedral diamond crystal > : (ca. x 0.5) Kimberley
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
serpentinized peridotite off the Island of Elba, Italy Alessandra Sciarra, Anna Saroni, Giuseppe Etiope...serpentinized peridotite off the Island of Elba, Italy, Applied Geochemistry (2018), doi: https://doi.org/10...serpentinized peridotite off the Island of Elba, Italy Alessandra Sciarra1,2,3*, Anna Saroni2, Giuseppe...Sezione Roma 1, via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143, Rome, Italy. 2 Department of Physics and Earth Sciences University...University of Ferrara, Via Saragat 1, 44122, Ferrara, Italy. 3 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto
titanite, zircon, amphibole, pyroxene, chlorite, talc, clay, chrysotile, chrysocolla, quartz, lazurite...hardness (with | being the softest) is as follows: | talc, 2 gypsum, 3 calcite, 4 fluorite, 5 apatite, 6 feldspar...actually two thousand times harder to scratch than talc, whereas on the Mohs relative scale it appears to...rhyolite (p. 256) Medium diorite (p. 250) Dark gabbro (p. 252) andesite (p. 260) basalt (p. 262) obsidian...USA; Kennecotte, Alaska, USA; Alghero, Sardinia, Italy. Interesting Facts The mineral named for the Italian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Microclimate at the Montecastelli Copper Mine, Italy Chiara Boschi 1, *, Federica Bedini 1 , Ilaria Baneschi...Resources, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), 56100 Pisa, Italy; kicca1000@hotmail.it (F.B.); ilaria...Pisa University, Via S. Maria 53, I-56126 Pisa, Italy; natale.perchiazzi@unipi.it (N.P.); zanchetta@dst...Montecastelli copper mine located in Southern Tuscany, Italy. On the basis of field, petrological, and geochemical...mitigate anthropogenic CO2 emissions [8]. Southern Tuscany offers several examples of spontaneous low- and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia 26 80126 Napoli, Italy 8 2Departamento 9 3Earth di Scienze della Terra...aimed to understand the role of diverse bedrocks (gabbro and serpentinite) and the influence of 19 climate...clay types. 20 The main phyllosilicate in the gabbro-derived saprolite consists of dioctahedral Al-...interstratified Ni- 25 clays (chlorite-smectite and talc-smectite) as a replacement of former phyllosilicates...of 2:1, 1:1 and 2:1:1 layered silicates such as talc, sepiolite, serpentine and 63 chlorite (e.g. Bish
Book
rhodonite, beryl, tourn1al ine, n1ica, chlorite, talc, clay, cb.rysotile, ch tysocolla, quartz, feldspar...hardness (with I being the softest) is as follows: 1 talc, 2 gypsun1, 3 calcite, 4 fl uorite, 5 apatite, 6...actually two thousand tin1es harder to scratch than talc, whereas on the Mohs relative scale it appears to...90 sylvite (colourless, white, reddish), p. 104 talc (white, pale green), p. 210 ulexite(colourless,...Medium diorite (p. 250) andesite (p. 260} Dark gabbro (p. 252) basalt (p. 262) obsidian (p. 266) Sedimentary
Catalog/List
ins £3 La Cetine Mine. Near Rosia, Sienna, Tuscany. Italy Quirang, Skye, Scotland 'A x A £4 Ramsley...crystal inwhite Albite Alpe Rosso, Vai Vigezzo Italy about half ins size Ixl" £4 Near Elizabeth Lake...Cordoba with short wave due to possible U minerals Province, Argentina__________ Pure white masses Ivigtut...Greenish masses with some black Spinel Trentino, Italy white micro crystals in limonitic matrix 1x2 £1...Location interest________________ Molinello Mine, Italy Brown fibrous areas on quartz White fibrous filling
Book
Zealand), helsinkite (Helsinki, Finland), halite (Italy), missourite (Missouri River), monzonite (Monzoni...(Tingua Mountains, Brazil), vesuvite (Mt. Vesuvius, Italy), wyomingite, and yosemitite (Yosemite, California)...names like granogabbro (granite-gabbro), monzogabbro (monzonite-gabbro), rhyodacite (rhyolite-dacite)...southern Crimea), vulsinite (Vulsinii, Etruscan tribe, Italy). Bibliography American Federation of Mineralogical...sthene) are the essential constituents; differs from gabbro by the presence of the Definition proposed prthopyroxene
Book (chapter)
On Gabbro (Euphotide of Hauy)* By M. Von BUCH. Extracted by M. de BONNARt>. (Annales des Mines for 1816...substances, a rock to which he assigns the name of Gabbro, given it by the Florentines. In the vii volume...a supplementary notice to his first memoir. The gabbro, spread over the four quarters of the world, forming...org/10.1017/CBO9781139225212.006 M. VON BUCH on Gabbro* 43 to be united with hornblende (amphibole)...are determined by Saussure. Although blocks of gabbro are spread over the Pays de Vaud and the environs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
J. metamorphic Geol., 1997, 15, 93–104 The gabbro–eclogite transformation: an oxygen isotope and petrographic...contain zoned pseudomorphs after olivine, comprising talc-rich cores with kyanite, Mg-chloritoid and omphacite...crust, is of gabbro to eclogite. Ahrens & Schubert (1975 ) modelled the kinetics of the gabbro–eclogite transformation...Similarly, eclogitic rocks N Apulian basement Allalin gabbro Ligurian sediments Ligurian ophiolites 20km Piemonte...5˚E 10˚E Switzerland Genoa France G T 45˚N Italy G Mediterranean Sea Fig. 1. Geological map of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microscopy, 453; -and ZUSSMAN (J.), The unit cell of talc, IO7 Alabandine, I.R. spectrum, 277 and MI7 ALABASTER(C...coherent intergrowth, ordering, I ; Ethiopia and Italy, 63; and see adularia, albite, microcline, orthoclase...More, Isle oj'Mull, corundophilite, 171 Analcime, Italy, anal., determination in pumice by X-ray diffractometry... Deweylite, a mixture of hydrous serpentine and talc-like minerals, 75 Bismuthinite, I.R. spectrum, 277...of primary Cu-S mineralization in the Freetown gabbro, Sierra Leone, IiI Brattfors mine, Nordmarks Odalfalt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry of lamprophyres from the Western Alps, Italy: implications for the origin of an enriched isotopic...spessartites, kersantite) from the Western Alps, northern Italy, represent small volume, mafic melts with high Mg#s...the late Cretaceous to early Tertiary. Keywords Italy  Subduction  Metasomatism  Geodynamics  Lamprophyre...Lamprophyre Introduction The Cenozoic igneous rocks of Italy have been studied extensively since the early 1900s...Mantle-derived rock types include lamproites in Tuscany, kamafugites and carbonatites along the axis of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
serpentine, orthopyroxene, augite, hornblende, talc, saussurite, 69 Portnoo, Donegal, zincian hercynite...xanthoxenite, jahnsite, 3o9 Austria (Osterreich) Tyrol, talc, IO7 Germany (Deutschland) BADEN Menzenschwand...adularia, 453 Spain (Espafia) Orense, tapiolite, 477 Italy (Italia) Brentonico, Verona, and Buffaure, Val...Prefecture, talc, IO7 Heguri, tobermorite, 229 . Nichi-Sonogi peninsula,. Nagasaki Prefecture, talc, IO7 Nodo...anorthoclase, cryptoperthite, 63 Sierra Leone Freetown, gabbro, digenite, copper, I I I Nigeria Godani Station
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
serpentinized dunites (Ligurian Ophiolites, Montecastelli, Tuscany) Chiara Boschi, Andrea Dini, Ilaria Baneschi, Federica...serpentinized dunites (Ligurian Ophiolites, Montecastelli, Tuscany), LITHOS (2017), doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2017.07.005...dunites (Ligurian Ophiolites, PT Montecastelli, Tuscany) SC RI Chiara Boschi*1, Andrea Dini1, Ilaria...Georisorse, CNR (Pisa, Italy) 2 Dipartimento di scienze della Terra, Univ. Pisa (Pisa, Italy) 3 Istituto Nazionale...Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV, Roma, Italy) ED MA NU 1 Corresponding author: c.boschi@igg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/apgeochem Hydrochemical evolution of groundwater in gabbro of the Troodos Fractured Aquifer. A comprehensive...fractured aquifers. The methodology was applied in the gabbro aquifers of Troodos Massif (Cyprus). The geochemical...endmember group. In 38% of the 536 samples from gabbro aquifers in Troodos, groundwater mixing with connate...modelling PHREEQC Conceptual models Hydrochemistry Gabbro Troodos 1. Introduction Ophiolites often form...comprehensive methodology to model groundwater evolution in gabbro and (ii) to utilize groundwater chemistry for obtaining
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evolutions in the Alpine-Apenninic ophiolites (France-Italy-Switzerland-Austria) JACQUELINE DESMONS Centre de...evolutions in the Alpine-Apenninic ophiolites (France-Italy-SwitzerlandAustria). In: L. Beccaluva (Guest-Editor)...and deformed basement made up of serpentinite, gabbro and serpentine-carbonate breccia (ophicalcite)...cutting through foliated and metamorphosed gabbro (flaser gabbro ). The deformation effects in the gabbros... S N S N S N S omph gr ep/zo glau ctd ky talc ph par Mg-chl lw? ru omph gr ep/zo glau Ca-amph
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8.2.1 The Columbia Plateau – Snake River Plain Province 8.2.2 Petrography and Chemistry of Continental...Volcanism in the Yellowstone – Snake River Plain Province 107 107 108 109 111 111 112 112 7/26/2013 2:39:06...composition of melts at 1 bar 3.8 Stoped block of gabbro that sank through the magma chamber, where it deformed...volcanic rocks of the Yellowstone – Snake River Plain province Geochemical trends for the Boina, Nyambeni, and...breakdown of Mg-talc with Fe-talc 15.6 Isobaric T-XMg diagram for the reaction talc = orthopyroxene +
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Chabriere Valley contains serpentinite and gabbro boulders a m o n g basalt cobbles. The basal breccia...complete ophiolite succession. The peridotite, gabbro, and basalt generally form separate bodies, which...Serpentinized peridotite ( 1 ), ophicalcite ( 2 ), gabbro (3), dolerite (4), basaltic rocks (5), and the...albitite). The other blank areas are occupied by talc-schists (schistes lustr6s). Localities of the analyzed...with serpentinite olistostromes (black) including gabbro olistoliths ( × ). The series is conformably covered
Catalog/List
in La Cetine Mine. Near Rosia, ½x½£4 Sienna, Tuscany, Italy slag. Quirang, Skye, Scotland CHABAZITE Sharp...crystal inwhite Albite Alpe ~osso, Val Vigezzo Italy CaAlSiO about half ins size ----~ u s Joc,itions...SiO with short wave due to possible U minerals Province, Argentina lxl £1.30 lx2 CRISTOBALITE Rich white...Greenish masses with some black Spinet Trentino, Italy FASSAITE Pyroxene Crystal Park,Colorado U.S.A lxl...Cu Zn As SbS County GANOPHYLLITE Molinello Mine, Italy lxl £3.60 lx2 £5 KNaMnAIMg SiO GARRONITE White fibrous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
can be found as trails in silicates (phlogopite, talc, chlorite, amphibole, albite, and tourmaline) in...and Havre Saint-Pierre anorthosites (Grenville Province, Quebec) and pointed out that this may be a common...around ilmenite Scapolitization of gabbro The Langø troctolite gabbro (Vogt 1910) is scapolitized along...the scapolitization is pervasive. The coronitic gabbro is fine– medium grained and preserves a magmatic...relationships are rare. The scapolitized part of the gabbro displays aggregates of phlogopite (TiO2: 1 wt %)
Catalog/List
n microprobed. Green crystal section with minor Talc LOCATION ANDESI NE Fel ds par AN DORITE Pb Ag...Waldsassen.Oberpfalz,Gerrnany. 1/," £2 Trentino, Italy lxl £8 Crystal Park,Colorado U.S. A Ix2 £5. ...Skisshyttan,Ludvika, Sweden Ix! £6 Molinello Mine, Italy Noumea New Caledonia Zcolitc I 52 GA\'LUSSITE... 653 Creamy, resinous mass in matrix ♦ Elba Italy lx l £4.50 Small colourless crystals well covering...Quarry,Okehampton,Devon Val d' Aosta, Piedmont, Italy ½x½ £5 lxl £2.50 ½x½ £1 Ix½ £1.50 l x l 60p variety
 
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