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Quartz from
Cassagna Mine, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cassagnaite1 photo of Quartz associated with Cassagnaite at this locality.
Piemontite1 photo of Quartz associated with Piemontite at this locality.
Tinzenite1 photo of Quartz associated with Tinzenite at this locality.
Piemontite-(Sr)1 photo of Quartz associated with Piemontite-(Sr) at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cassagna Mine, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:433794
Long-form Identifier:1:3:433794:2
GUID (UUID V4):d2b54f11-4bda-4b3d-a5a7-c5f7e1b6ae8a
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
1.4km (0.9 miles) Monte Bianco, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
1.6km (1.0 miles) Marble quarry, Nascio, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
1.7km (1.0 miles) Molinello Mine, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
1.8km (1.1 miles) Lagoscuro bridge, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
2.3km (1.5 miles) Scrava Mine (Statale Mine), Statale, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
3.0km (1.8 miles) Mt. Tregin mine, Bargone, Casarza Ligure, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
3.0km (1.9 miles) Monte Porcile Mine, Maissana, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
3.3km (2.1 miles) Gambatesa Mine, Reppia, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
3.9km (2.4 miles) Monte Zenone Mine, Casarza Ligure, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
3.9km (2.4 miles) Costa di Bargone, Bargone, Casarza Ligure, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
4 TINZENITE rich, orange mass on quartz Cassagna Mine, Liguria Italy 2 x 2.5cm £7 7 "MOHAWKITE" a burnjshed...coverage about 1.5mm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected it in 2019 ...with some reddish hematite areas 6x3.5x2cm Benallt Mine , Rhiw, Llyen North Wales £20 28 OLIVINE "bomb"...Australia £8 39 STILPNOMELANE on QUARTZ thin brown coating on quartz crystal, from this classic Norwegian...grey-black metallic mass with a small amount of quartz 4x3.5cm £26 Erongo district Namibia 3 .,,
Report (issue)
= 18.995(2) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Cassagna mine, Italy. 9.52 (100), 2.66 (70), 2.54 (65), 4.85...61 7.55 2.36 5.42 31.69 5.87 100.00 (1) Cassagna mine, Italy; range of 7 electron microprobe analyses...analysis. (2) Cassagna mine, Italy; mean of 7 electron microprobe analyses. (3) Cassagna mine, Italy; H2O by... Occurrence: Filling fractures in braunite and quartz layered mineralization developed under prehnite-pumpellyite...Association: Braunite, quartz, piemontite. Distribution: At the Cassagna mine, Graveglia manganese district
Journal (issue)
Articles The Val Graveglia m anganese district, Liguria, I t a ly .......................................Donato, Italy macco.marchesini@agip.it Renato Pagano Casella Postale 37 1-20092 Cinisello, Italy renpagan@tin...Val Graveglia area, Genoa Province, Northern Italy. 1— Cassagna mine 2—Gambatesa mine 3— Molana quarry 4—...Molinello mine 5— Monte Bardeneto prospect 6— Monte Bianco copper mine 7— Monte Bossea mine 8— Monte Coppello-Reppia...Coppello-Reppia prospect 9— Monte Porcile mine 10— Nascio 11—Scrava mine 12— Pontori Prospect h CD ^ .L IG
Catalog/List
flat calcite-- attractive piece 6x4. Whitesmith Mine Stontian Scotland £25 7 ElJDIAL YTE rich red masses...Mexico £40 9 MONAZITE one good fawn micro crystal on quartz, the monazite is thin hexagonal platy. Croft Gothal...covering all over the top surface 4x3cm Cassagna Mine, Ne Liguria Italy £ 25 14 STRONTIO-ORTHO JOAQU1N1TE one...pinkish micro crystals on Boracite crystals Boulby mine Loftus Yorkshire 3x2cm £18 16 PRICEITE hard white...crystal sections on lx2cm surface Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia Italy £8 18 NATIVE COPPER a cleaned piece 8x5cm
Catalog/List
surface. It's about lm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected it in 2019....botryoidal 1cm x 8mm on 2.5xlcm Penberthy Croft Mine St Hilary Cornwall £6 - the type location 19 URBANITE...PURPURITE-HETEROSITE rich mass of mauve cleavages with some small quartz veins. Has been acid dipped to show up the colour...Scotland £10 27 SUGILITE mauve chip about 8mm Wessels mine, North Cape Province South Africa £8 31 CLINTONITE...Pentreath Beach Lizard Cornwall £28 (photo left) 35 QUARTZ a 2.5 cm crystal on feldspar/chlorite and with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
V-bearing silicate mineral from the Cassagna mine, northern Apennines, Italy Riccardo BASSO1, *, Cristina CARBONE1...Università di Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy *Corresponding author, e-mail: mineral@dipteris...Genova, Italy Abstract: Cassagnaite occurs at the Cassagna manganese mine (Eastern Liguria, Italy), filling...filling fractures in braunite + quartz layered mineralizations together with piemontite. It occurs as very...closely associated with much larger piemontite, quartz, and braunite crystals. The crystals are generally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
worldwide, at nine of which tinzenite is found with quartz, rhodonite, Mn-bearing calcite or rhodochrosite...niobium-yttrium-fluorine family, where tinzenite occurs with quartz, K-feldspar and cassiterite. Key-words: axinite...4SiO2·Al2O3·Mn2O3·2CaO for tinzenite from Cassagna, Liguria. Winchell & Winchell (1951, p. 505) gave the...tinzenite from the manganese deposit at Cassagna, Liguria, Italy, and reported that Ca and Mn were ordered...evidence for tinzenite Nagakawara deposit, Ananai mine, Kochi Prefecture, Japan2 ― Source of data Jakob
Catalog/List
3x2.5cm £60 Scerscen Glacier, Sondrio Province Italy Mn2+,i.As5+ShO 12(OH 3 TIRAGALLOITE orange massive-crystalline...smaller area. Scerscen Glacier Sondrio province Italy . Mn2+,i.As5+SbO12(OH) £30 4 TIRAGALLOITE sample...ANTIMONY rich silvery cleavages about 80% pure with quartz Kalliosola Seinajoki Finland 3xl. 5cm £25 B) smaller...section. The largest crystal is 1.5cm high Telirio Mine, Linopolis Minas Gerais Brazil with previous dealers...surface. It's about 1mm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected it in 2019
Catalog/List
crystals about half covering small quartz crystals 3x3cm Bwlch I Glas Mine, Tal-y-Bont Ceredigion Wales £6...small matrix Fuka Mine, Okayama Japan £ 15 -20 - TANXALITE-obv:iousblac~ cleavages in Quartz 5x5 cm Ricksburg...creamy white cleavable like a feldspar 6x3cm £25 Fuka Mine,m Okayama Prefecture Japan , (photo left) 23B) smaller...obvious brown mass in 3x2 Casagna Mine, Graveglia Valley Liguria Italy £ 10 L...~~--------1 --=2q_ PR...an~ schis~_ Curiglia, Varese Province, Lombardy Italy 1.5cm£10 --- ------ - ·=- - 30 CHRYSOCOLLA,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
475–483 Weissite from Gambatesa mine, Val Graveglia, Liguria, Italy: occurrence, composition and determination...di Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, I-50121 Florence, Italy CNR Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Sezione...di Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, I-50121 Florence, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell’Ambiente...Corso Europa 26, I-16132 Genoa, Italy Via Montenotte 18, I-17100 Savona, Italy [Received 23 April 2013;...occurs in a sample from the Gambatesa mine, Val Graveglia, Liguria, Italy, where it occurs as purplish black
Report (issue)
10.191(4) X-ray Powder Pattern: Val Graveglia, Italy. 2.916 (100), 3.493 (50), 2.836 (50), 2.601 (50)...Total [99.38] Chemistry: (1) Val Graveglia, Italy; by electron microprobe, Mn2+:Mn 3+ calculated from...Graveglia, Italy). Association: Calcite, rhodonite, rhodochrosite, ganophyllite, braunite, quartz (Val Graveglia...Graveglia, Italy); xonotolite, vuagnatite (Wessels mine, South Africa). Distribution: From the Molinello...and Cassagna manganese mines, near Chiavari, Val Graveglia, Liguria, Italy. In the Wessels mine, near
Report (issue)
)§=2:00 B0:96 Si 4:01 O15 (OH)0:79 : (2) Gambatesa mine, Italy; corresponds to (Mn 1:60 Ca 1:42 Mg0:13 Na 0:07K...metamorphosed manganese-bearing ophiolites (Liguria, Italy); in quartz veins in cherts of the greenschist facies...(Akatore, New Zealand). Association: Braunite, quartz. Distribution: From near Tinzen, in the Val d'Err...Switzerland. In the Cassagna and Gambatesa mines, Val Graveglia, near Chiavari, Liguria, Italy. From Akatore
Catalog/List
deal of the matrix. 5x5x2.5cm Molinello Mine, Vai Graveglia, Italy £35 2 AWARUITE about 10 individual 2...or more pieces in a plastic box. Friedrichsegen Mine, bad Ems , Lahn .Rhineland-Palatinate Germany £18...brown fibrous about 3x2cm Punta Gensane, Viu Turin Italy 13 SENARMONITE single sharp grey octahedral crystal...rich grey masses with large cleavage face 5x4 Fuka Mine ,Okayama Japan £45 B) smaller piece 2.5 x 3cm £20...included with sand Erfoud Morocco 5x4cm £18 31 QUARTZ clear double terminated crystal about 8mm long
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
5+O4)(OH)6, a new ardennite-group mineral from Italy 1 2 3 4 PrePub Article ANTHONY R. KAMPF1,*, CRISTINA...the ardennite group from the Monte Alpe mine, Liguria, Italy. It crystallized from V- and Mn-rich hydrothermal...Studi di Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy 3 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University...Palmanova 67, 20132 Milano, Italy 5 via XXV Aprile 28, 16046 Mezzanego, Italy Key-words: alpeite; new mineral;...ardennite group; crystal structure; Monte Alpe mine; Italy. 35 1. Introduction 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1899–1905, 2013 Mcalpineite from the Gambatesa mine, Italy, and redefinition of the species Cristina Carbone1...Europa 26-16132 Genova, Italy 2 CNR-SPIN, Corso Perrone 24, I-16152 Genova, Italy 3 Canadian Museum of Nature...been found in the Gambatesa mine (eastern Liguria, Italy). It occurs in a quartz vein mainly as yellowish...the McAlpine mine (typelocality; California, U.S.A.) and at the Centennial Eureka mine (Utah, U.S.A....formula is Cu3TeO6. Keywords: Mcalpineite, Gambatesa mine, crystal structure, TEM, XRPD Introduction Mcalpineite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spherical aggregates are associated with massive quartz. • Pink to tan elongated crystals to several centimeters...striated epidotes in matrix, from the Calumet iron mine, Colorado. Epidote was described in 1801 by Haüy...collectors. Within the United States, the Green Monster mine, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, has yielded superb...prismatic crystals with quartz (Leavens and Thomssen 1977); the Calumet iron mine, Chaffee County, Colorado... Large, bladed crystals forming dark fans with quartz are found at Pampa Blanca, Huancavelica, Peru.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
analogue of medaite, from the Molinello mine, Liguria, Italy: occurrence and crystal structure Cristian...Università di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy *Corresponding author, e-mail: cristian.biagioni@unipi...Studi di Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy 3 Department of Applied Geological Sciences and...Via Luigi Delfino 74, 17017 Millesimo, Savona, Italy 5þ Abstract: The new mineral species arsenmedaite...discovered in quartz veinlets in the braunite ore deposit of the Molinello mine, Graveglia Valley, Ne, Genova
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
another new mineral (gallobeaudanite) from the Tsumeb mine. The unoxidized portions of the sample in which...minerals in the sample are goethite, hematite, quartz, Hg-rich native silver, stolzite, otjisumerite...V-bearing silicate mineral from the Cassagna mine, northern Apennines, Italy. Eur. J. Mineral., 20, 95–100...Apennines, Liguria, Italy) at the Cassagna mine. Cassaginaite was found in fractures in braunite + quartz layered...described vanadium mineral was discovered at this mine. Cassagnaite appears as very rare isolated prismatic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ital,y l.Nn G. Gorrenu, [Jni,versitd, d.i Mod,ena,Italy. INrnoouctrorq Heretofore the nomenclature of axinites...Monte Pu (Liguria). Doriana, 4, 152. ANDE. Seurno (1954)Nuove ricerchesulla Tinzenite di Cassagna(Liguria)...53, JULY_AUGUST, 1968 THE PROPORTIONALITYOF QUARTZ IN MYRMEKITE EvaN R. Pnttttes, Department oJ Geologyand...accurate measurement. By contrast the absenceof quartz in pure albite of the rim and intergranular types...New South Wales, contain myrmekites in which the quartz-plagioclase intergrowths are relatively coarse:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
although minor SiO2 (which is probably included quartz) and phosphate, occurring as a minor replacement...reported from the now-closed Harborside mine and nearby Rosier mine, Brooksville, Hancock County, Maine....West. It occurs sparingly in ores of the Tucson mine in the Leadville district of Lake County, Colorado...sized bright green scales along with tyrolite on quartz and phyllite host rock (Jenkins 1981), and the...fine chalcophyllite microcrystals is the 3 Metals mine in the Weepah district of Esmeralda County. Utah
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Monte Pu (Liguria). Doriana, 4, 152. ANDE. Seurno (1954)Nuove ricerchesulla Tinzenite di Cassagna(Liguria)...53, JULY_AUGUST, 1968 THE PROPORTIONALITYOF QUARTZ IN MYRMEKITE EvaN R. Pnttttes, Department oJ Geologyand...accurate measurement. By contrast the absenceof quartz in pure albite of the rim and intergranular types...New South Wales, contain myrmekites in which the quartz-plagioclase intergrowths are relatively coarse:...measurementsfor two major rock types are given here. Quartz and plagioclase volumes were calculated from photomicrograph
Journal (issue)
prachtige rhodochrosietskalenoëders van de N’Chwaning Mine (ZuidAfrika). Alleen het rond brilliantslijpsel...(Afghanistan) en de klassiekers van de Himalaya Mine (Pala, California) vertegenwoordigd. Ere wie ere...aggregaatje van rhodochrosiet. Veldbreedte 3 mm. Gambatesa mine, Val Graveglia, Italië. Verzameling en foto R. Bracco...twintig werden 3 veel voorkomende mineralen van de Cassagna mijn als nieuwe species geïdentificeerd, namelijk...mineraal dat voorkwam in een aantal parageneses in Cassagna, zoals beschreven door E. Sanero (1936), kwam
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
degli Studi di Pavia, via Ferrata 1, I-27100 Pavia, Italy 2 Centro Grandi Strumenti, Università degli Studi...Studi di Pavia, via Bassi 21, I-27100 Pavia, Italy 3 Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana, via San Pietro...Devesi-Ciriè, Italy 4 Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana, via Delfino 74, I-17017 Millesimo, Italy 1 Abstract...mineral found at the Monte Nero Mine (Rocchetta Vara, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy) having the simplified formula...mm long. Associated phases are calcite, inesite, quartz, brandtite, sarkinite, and tilasite in a chert
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
composition of atypical ophiolitic from east Liguria, Italy TIMOTHY Mineral Exploration Research Institute...Friedrichsen, H., 1989. Stable isotopic composition Italy. Chem. Geol. (Isot. Geosci. Sect.), 80: 71-84. ...atypical ophiolitic rocks from east Liguria, In east Liguria, Italy, pelagic sediments and discontinuous...Index map and general geology of part of east Liguria. Outlined box approximates the Bracco Zone, the...Letters indicate localities as follows: NC = Nascio-Cassagna; MC = Monte Capra-Monte Porcile; CR = Casa Riasola
Book
Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...12, 12 quartz 28, 31, 95 quartz, amethyst 29, 31 quartz, aventurine 31 quartz, citrine 3J quartz, morion...morion 31 quartz, rutilated 31 quartz, smoky 31 realgar 18, l 9 rhaetizite 79 rhodizite 55 rhodocrosite...59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM All physical bodies in Nature can be...If on .the other hand \Ve should carry out the sa,ne tests on other substances such as bauxite, porphyry
 
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