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Prehnite from
Gneiss quarries, Arvigo, Calanca, Moesa Region, Grisons, Switzerland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Prehnite
Formula:Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Epidote25 photos of Prehnite associated with Epidote at this locality.
Quartz8 photos of Prehnite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Adularia7 photos of Prehnite associated with Adularia at this locality.
Chlorite Group4 photos of Prehnite associated with Chlorite Group at this locality.
Titanite3 photos of Prehnite associated with Titanite at this locality.
Scolecite2 photos of Prehnite associated with Scolecite at this locality.
Feldspar Group2 photos of Prehnite associated with Feldspar Group at this locality.
Laumontite2 photos of Prehnite associated with Laumontite at this locality.
Stilbite Subgroup2 photos of Prehnite associated with Stilbite Subgroup at this locality.
Calcite2 photos of Prehnite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Prehnite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gneiss quarries, Arvigo, Calanca, Moesa Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Photo GalleryView Gallery (31 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:43546
Long-form Identifier:1:3:43546:4
GUID (UUID V4):28754ffb-74b4-4078-8364-36b834266fba
Localities for Prehnite in this Region
Alfredo Quarry, Gneiss quarries, Arvigo, Calanca, Moesa Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Nearest other occurrences of Prehnite
2.8km (1.8 miles) Selma, Calanca, Moesa Region, Grisons, Switzerland
14.6km (9.1 miles) Loderio, Blenio Valley, Blenio, Ticino, Switzerland
15.1km (9.4 miles) Bodengo Valley, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
25.1km (15.6 miles) Loga Valley, Madesimo, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
25.9km (16.1 miles) Chironico Valley, Faido, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
25.9km (16.1 miles) Lavorgo, Faido, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
30.4km (18.9 miles) Camperio, Santa Maria Valley, Blenio Valley, Blenio, Ticino, Switzerland
31.2km (19.4 miles) Campra, Acquacalda, Santa Maria Valley, Blenio Valley, Blenio, Ticino, Switzerland
31.6km (19.6 miles) Piana Valley, Codera Valley, Novate Mezzola, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
32.3km (20.1 miles) Codera streambed, Codera Valley, Novate Mezzola, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Hill through the southern, famous for its gneiss quarries and mineral de posits, and Tim’s Hill lies...granite, with frequent occurrence of large veins of gneiss, which have been extensively quarried for curbing...past seventy-five years, explored the old hills, quarries and openings, so that at the present time one...Haddam Neck. It is also found in various other spar quarries on the Neck. Also found at the chrysoberyl locality...in the Ponsett district, filling small seams in gneiss, also in stalactitic forms. 62 THE XINIRAL OOLL
Book
02'34"}65)--Quartz-plagioclasemicrocline.bioti te gneiss. Acc>essory minerals: clinozoisi te, garnet, zircon... magnetite, muscovite, hornolende. 'Actinolite Gneiss >and Cpondrodite Limestone (76(locality uncertain}ltl)--westward...pyrite, Plrrhotite, ahd calcite in hornDlendle gneiss. Eaat of Center Pend, oa fara ot M.J. ~lder.an...p.150,195)--.erpentine mar'le found in a bed in gneiss on the river in Becket. Mattetite (75(see L.e)374...titan te i8 r.lative~1 large SJl.sunts. Grgit. Quarries (76(42 15'58",73000'43tt)~ 2 16'11",73 01'U tt
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banks of the Androscoggin, be- tween strata of gneiss. sometimes in crystals, generally Epidote, manganesian...granular or compact, in veins traversing granite, gneiss, greenstone, &cc. Hornblende, fibrous, in large...primitive limestone, sometimes in granite and gneiss, ; limestone, with Granular Quartz ; it forms a...of the Androscoggin, Sometimes in granite and gneiss. short hexaedral prisms, or rather in abundantly...fragments, scattered among masses of granite and gneiss, sometimes imperfectly crystalline. Fetid Quartz
Report (issue)
published and unpublished data on dimension stone quarries, prospects, and historical sites in the southern...Chapter 2 Granite and metamorphic rocks Southern region ....................................................................................5 Historic quarries...............................................................................8 Fraser Range — gneiss, charnockite, and mafic granulite ............................................31 Central western region ..............................................
Book
Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71: Fluorite crystals from the People's...can form aggregates with a coralline habit. prehnite, rhodochrosite, talc, thomsonite, uraninite and...crust is called a magma chamber. The cooling of in gneiss formed in a metamorphic environment at high temperature...the Passo del Rombo in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy, or the splendid crystals of azure-blue...summit of Pizzo Forno in the Ticino Canton of Switzerland. A particular type of metamorphism, known as
Book (volume)
..377 North Carolina – Spruce Pine – Little Switzerland Area Map .....................379 North Carolina.........................511 Virginia – Leesburg quarries Site Map .......................................407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges
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Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71: Ruorite crystals from the People's...can form aggregates with a coralline habit. prehnite, rhodochrosite, talc, thomsonite, uraninite and...metamorphic rocks. Above: corundum crystal contained in gneiss formed in a metamorphic environment at high temperature...the Passo del Rombo in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy, or the splendid crystals of azure-blue...summit of Pizzo Forno in the Ticino Canton of Switzerland. A particular type of metamorphism, known as
Book (volume)
407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges...⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet...Magnetite, Pyrite, etc.; f limestone and dolomite quarries⎯Barite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of
Book (volume)
407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges...⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet...Magnetite, Pyrite, etc.; f limestone and dolomite quarries⎯Barite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of
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because of the immense heat developed; it is in this region of contact metamorphism where many great mines...Igneous intrusives Dark minerals, Limestone quarries Calcite, celestite, dolomite, fluorite, galena...their “civilized” appurtenances. Not only is the region of the Old West much more was eighty years ago...oxidation or sulphurization. In the southwestern desert region natural tarnish may become like a crust, known...sericite, chlorite, muscovite, biotite varieties), gneiss, hornfels, marble, serpentine, breccias, silica
Book (edition)
valuable ores, with the localities and extent of quarries, and of coal and lime formations, objects of ... do duartz Rock, Talcose Slate, Mica Slate, do Gneiss, &c. do Greenstone, do Porphyry, Seinite and Granite...AND MINERALS IN THE STATE. Granite and Sienite, Gneiss, Greenstone, Hornblende Slate and Poryhyry, Quartz...the Strata, Mineral Contents Theory of Hornblende Gneiss: How distinguished from Granite, Its Mineralogical...Slate, : - - - - 385 339 394 - . - of Gneiss, 381 - Strata, . Theory 362 363 368 368 370
Book (edition)
of coast. About the continents there is often a region of shallow depths which is only the submerged border...lands. Moreover, Europe and Asia have a semi-marine region between them for the Caspian and Aral are salt...altitude. The Mississippi Valley of the great interior region of the North American continent is an example also...Hawaii, signifies mount. an extensive elevated region of flat or hillysuch as often occurs in mountainous...the course of a mountainchain, or occupy a wide region between distant chains. The " Great Basin" between
Book (volume)
BUILDING STONEd, ; General Remarks . Granite and Gneiss . Basalt and Trap . . . . _ .5 3 2 —534 . 534—538...Extra-Peninsular Coal Fields. V.—The Wynaad Gold Region. A’ l.—General Index Map of India. S fcV "■ ‘...further south. Marco Polo referred to the same region, under the name Mutfili after a port called Motupaller3...it was in Saubira. Ptolomey’s ac­ count of this region will be alluded to on a future page. Kosala is...Tavernier’ s diamond mines, liaolconda, was in this region, his indications o£ its position oil being analysed
 
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