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Realgar from
Mount Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples, Campania, Italy


Locality type:Stratovolcano
Classification
Species:Realgar
Formula:As4S4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Lafossaite2 photos of Realgar associated with Lafossaite at this locality.
Hydrokenoralstonite1 photo of Realgar associated with Hydrokenoralstonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Realgar data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples, Campania, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:475420
Long-form Identifier:1:3:475420:6
GUID (UUID V4):d27f0a2e-deeb-4429-bfae-e569e634d569
Localities for Realgar in this Region
Atrio del Cavallo, Mount Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples, Campania, Italy
Vesuvius fumaroles, Mount Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples, Campania, Italy
Nearest other occurrences of Realgar
1.5km (0.9 miles) Atrio del Cavallo, Mount Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples, Campania, Italy
24.0km (14.9 miles) Solfatara di Pozzuoli, Pozzuoli, Naples, Campania, Italy
24.0km (14.9 miles) "Bocca Grande" fumarole, Solfatara di Pozzuoli, Pozzuoli, Naples, Campania, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Stefano Carlino Neapolitan Volcanoes A Trip Around Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ischia GeoGuide Series editors... Stefano Carlino Neapolitan Volcanoes A Trip Around Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ischia 123 Stefano Carlino...Vulcanologia Sezione di Napoli, Osservatorio Vesuviano Naples Italy ISSN 2364-6497 ISSN 2364-6500 (electronic)...Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland The Somma-Vesuvius volcanic complex (courtesy G. Vilardo, Geomatic Laboratory...most resplendent and dangerous forces of Nature. Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ischia: the names alone evoke
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, M. R. C. S., B.fcs Sc., F. G. S., etc. NAPLES F. FURCHHEIM, PIAZZA DEI MARTIRI 1891 59, Printed...FERRANTE Vico Tiratoio, 25 JHE GETTY CENTLK LIBRARY Naples PREFACE The British Isles, as every geologist...whilst the necessary steps to organise it locally in Naples the initiative in Great Association of London took...to the start from England, became invisible. In Naples a local committee had been formed, which had made...a useless who was to arrival of the party in Naples, resulting in the notice being too short to get
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VESUVIUS JOHN JPHILLIPS, M. A. HON. FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD; D.C.L. OXFORD ; LL.D. CAMBRIDGE...life were so far relaxed as to allow me to visit Vesuvius, fortunately then in action. Fortunately, also...grandest phaenomena of nature. During our stay in Naples we benefited, as many English geologists and physicists...Professor Palmieri, in recording the movements of Vesuvius, were explained to us by that able experimentalist;...gave to us the cheerful aid which makes a visit to Naples so pleasant to his countrymen. On my return to
Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by |GDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...olivenite 65, 65 olivine 75, 75 quartz, smoky 31 realgar 18, 19 rhaetizite 79 rhodizite 55 rhodocrosite...vonsenite 53 vulpinite 55 wad 34, 35 sulphides, complex 17 sulphur 6, 6, 7 wavellite 7/, 73 wernerite...to reconstruct, through the study of rocks, the complex transformations in the Earth’s crust. So we cannot...silver, and so on. After this we go on to more complex classes containing elements combined with sulphur
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with Orbis Publishing Limited abcdefgh Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara Adapted from the original Italian...neptunite 89, 90 quartz, morion 31 quartz, smoky 31 realgar 18, 19 rhaetizite 79 thodizite 55 rhodocrosite...sulphates, hydrous 59 sulphides 8 sulphides, complex 17 sulphur 6, 6, 7 sylvite 20 synchisite 49 szaibelyite...to reconstruct, through the study of rocks, the complex porphyry, granite, or sand, we would notice that...silver, and so on. After this we go on to more complex classes containing elements combined with sulphur
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Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...morion 31 quartz, rutilated 31 quartz, smoky 31 realgar 18, l 9 rhaetizite 79 rhodizite 55 rhodocrosite...55 sulphates, hydrous 59 sulphides 8 sulphides, complex 17 sulphur 6, 6, 7 sylvite 20 synchisite 49 szaibelyite...to reconstruct, through the study of rocks, the complex transformations in the Earth's crust. So we cannot...silver, and so on. After this we go on to more complex classes containing elements co1nbined with sulphur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Phlegrean Fields (Campanian Volcanic Province, Italy) A. Aiuppa a,⁎, R. Avino b , L. Brusca c , S. Caliro...di Palermo, Italy Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Napoli, Italy Istituto Nazionale...di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Palermo, Italy b c Received 17 March 2005; received in revised...from the Campanian Volcanic Province (Southern Italy), in an attempt to identify the environmental conditions...2000). Conversely, the solubility products of realgar and orpiment, low-temperature stable Asbearing
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Guastoni; Roberto Appiani. Originally published: Italy : Mondadori, 2003. [256] p. : col. photos. ; cm...and the Federico II Museum of the University of Naples. Some specimens were made available by private...Susa Valley, Piedmont, Italy Pages 8-9: Beryl from the Codera Valley, Lombardy, Italy Pages 42-43: Silver...rhodochrosite from Peru Pages 50-51: Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71:...crystals from Mount Bregaceto, Liguria, Italy Pages 104-105: Azurite crystals from Sardinia, Italy Pages 118-119:
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Tablinum of the House of the Bicentenary (Herculaneum, Italy) between Decorative Technology and Natural Disasters...Tablinum of the House of the Bicentenary (Herculaneum, Italy) between Decorative Technology and Natural Disasters...of Padova, Piazza Capitaniato 7, 35139 Padova, Italy; ivana.angelini@unipd.it Inter-Departmental Research...University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy; gilberto.artioli@unipd.it Getty Conservation Institute...University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy Department of Environment, Construction and Design
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Corundum encke Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique...the monoclinic system are azurite, malachite, realgar direction, including its edges, and the angles...California, Mexico. Europe: Mt. Vesuvius; Solfatara di Pozzuoli, near Naples; Perticara, near Rimini; Carrara...Yellowstone Park, Tuscany; Cianciana, Sicily — all in Italy; Conil, Spain. Asia: volcanic regions in Japan....Japan. Sulfur, Cianciana Mine, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy * 8 x 75 x 5 cm Name From the Greek word arsenikos
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County, Utah, U.S.A., who found the first braunite. Mount Ochi, Karystos, Greece. Reinecke, T. et al. (1991):...problematical nature of the mineral. Ilfmaussaq alkaline complex, Tunugdliarfik, Greenland. SrAIF4(OH)eH20, mon...at the University of Modena, Italy. Monte Chiaro, Taro Valley, Italy. Veniale, F. & van der Marel, H...Alluaiv Mountain, Althupite Lovozero alkaline complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia. AITh(UO;)[(UO2)3(PO4)20(OH)]...Oleny Stream apatite deposit, Khibina alkaline complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia. ear Alumino-magnesiotaramite
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passed back into Latin in Spain and so to Scholastic Italy in the 12th century; the later Renaissance was a...A.D., which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum Vesuvius, had long been quiescent. The first recorded eruption...the wall-paintings at Pompeii shows a view of Vesuvius. It is in the landscape background of a charming...Florus III, 20) that we learn that the mountain was Vesuvius, which then consisted, not of the present familiar...cone, but of the unbroken crater of which Monte Somma is the surviving part. Logan Lobley gives a drawing
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Guastoni; Roberto Appiani. Originally published: Italy: Mondadori, 2003. (256} p. : col. phptos. ; cm....and the Federico II Museum of the University of Naples. Some specimens were made available by private...Valley, Piedmont, Italy Pages 8- 9: 13eryl from the Codera Valley, Lombardy, Italy Pages 42- 43: Silver...rhodochrosite from Peru Pages 50- 51: Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71:...crystals from Mount Bregaceto, Liguria, Italy Pages 104-105: Azurite crystals from Sardinia, Italy Pages 118-119:
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crystals set in an asbestos base from Sondrio in Italy. Actinolite has high mechanical sensitivity - this...(matrix) from Balzano, Italy. Below: Note the blackness of these crystals from Novara, Italy. ~ Actinolite forms...British Columbia (Canada), in the Alpine regions of Italy, in New Zealand, in Siberia (Russia) and in Alaska...occurring in Switzerland, Austria and northern Italy. Albite is a mineral that is common and widespread...Switzerland, the Austrian Tyrol and right across northern Italy in the Val D'Aosta, around Lake Maggiore, and in
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native elements such as silver, gold and copper to complex silicates such as vesuvianite, first discovered...discovered in limestone blocks ejected by Mount Vesuvius, each one exemplifies the wonder of nature. Often emanating...thousands of years. Two forms of arsenic sulphide, realgar (top-left) and orpiment (bottom), were used by...shown that its interior is far more dynamic and complex than anyone ever thought. Beneath the thin rocky...after the island of Stromboli off the west coast of Italy. Gas escapes sporadically and the volcano repeatedly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sublimates and secondary alteration products from Vesuvius and Vulcano J. G. A N G U S x AND G. R. D A V...zinc. 'Aphthitalite' and 'natrikalite' from Mount Vesuvius and an 'alum' from the island of Vulcano all...o m the A e o l i a n I s l a n d s a n d Mt. Vesuvius b y the late Professor J o h n s t o n - L a v...chemical analyses o f m a t e r i a l f r o m Vesuvius a n d the island o f V u l c a n o ( A e o l i...o n selective electrode. 'Sublimates" from Mount Vesuvius The ' s u b l i m a t e s ' a n d a l t e r
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needed. :::, C. CJ) "' i::r Cl :::, Prmted in Italy 9: TREASURES OF THE EARTH ,s pubhs~cd by Orb,s...globular aggregates of steatite from Piacenza (Italy). The most notable characteristics of steatite are...Lizard, Cornwall (England); Egypt; India; Piacenza (Italy); the Shetland Islands (Scotland); Barberton, Transvaal...grape-shaped (botryoidal) mass of steatite from Piacenza (Italy). The greasy FACT FILE STEATITE Group: Silicates...discovered, on the slopes of the volcanic Mount Vesuvius near N aples (Italy). C) C (/) (/) -I ALTERNATIVE
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shown that its interior is far more dynamic and complex than anyone ever thought. Beneath the thin rocky...But isolated high mountain peaks, like Kenya's Mount Kilimanjaro - some 5895m (19,340 ft) high - are...Asia to build the Himalayas (see below). A more complex picture In recent years, however, geologists have...mountains have deep boundary. In fact, it seems the complex interaction between erosion, ‘roots’ that protrude...Mountains Mountains crust Tibetan Plateau Complex thrust faults and folds Strike-slip faults ■HK
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extrusive. We usually have in mind a volcano such as Vesuvius or Mauna Loa when we refer to this sort of he)...only active volcano in the United States. When Vesuvius sprang to life in A.D. 79, suffocating Pompeii...are coatings of such minerals as native sulfur, realgar, and hematite, which are described in this book...removable sliding trays, which can 36 Fig. 20 Riker mount with glass top be set on a table, are popular with...in housing, Ser Fig. 21 Pe Plastic specimen mount 37 lighting, mounting, arranging, collection for
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marcasite, vitriols, alum, arsenic, orpiment and realgar, common salt, saltpeter, sal ammoniac, sal alkali...n . lt appears that copies of this work sold in Italy had these leaves removed to avoid being censored...which was one of the earliest private museums in Italy. Journal of the Geo-Literary Society Vol. 18 No...which was one of the earliest private museums in Italy. The first section describes and i l l u strates...references to amber, description of an eruption of Vesuvius in 1 694, and an account of the geology of Sicily
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different rocks or ore samples presents a pretty complex picture regarding the shape, size, and arrangement...and the sequence of events in this case is very complex. In addition a number of plutonic rocks, especially...succession of halite and other minerals, is very complex. A simplified approach is to think of a marine...of the highly metamorphosed skarn ores is very complex, and they are restricted to old rocks. These deposits...octahedron. Elba, Italy. Below center Combined octahedral and pyritohedral faces. Elba, Italy. Below right
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through volcanic activity in Vulcano. Lipari Islands, Italy. Tellurium Te TRIGONAL • • ceiestite and halite...come from many localities near Girgetui, Sicily, Italy (Caltanisseta. Cianciana) where they reached up...volcanically active places, like Solfatara near Pozzuoli, Italy or in sulfur lava near Shiretoku. Japan. Sulfur...to 30 mm (1Y» in) occur in Sarrabus, Sardinia, Italy. Maybe the best argentite crystals occurred in Mexico...Freiberg, Germany; Cobalt, Ontario, Canada and in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. It was a principal Ag
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found in altered limestones from places like Monte Somma. Lava on its journey to the surface saturates limestone...groups together minerals with the same simple or complex anion. If you need to compare the various minerals...crust. It forms the tetrahedrally coordinated complex silicate anion with oxygen, (Si04) . Silicates...as the sole anion. When the sole anion is the complex anion (OH) minerals are hydroxides. -25- Many...important oxides. Phosphates Phosphates have the complex anion (P04)3". As in silicates P04 tetrahedra can
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aragonite. calcite, Sulphur, 66 mm, Sicily, Italy Selenium Se TRIGONAL e e Properties: C - gray...through volcanic activity in Vulcano, Lipari Islands, Italy. Tellurium Te T R IGONAL e e celestitc and halite...come from many localities near Girgenti, Sicily, Italy (Caltanisseta, Cianciana) where they reached up...volcanically active places, like Solfatara near Pozzuoli, Italy or in sulf11r lava near Shiretoku, Japan. Sulfur...30 mm (] 3/ 16 in) occur in Sanabus, Sardinia, Italy. Maybe the best argentite crystals occurred in Mexico
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Filrnset by Kcyspools Ltd, Golbornc, Lanes Printed in Italy 3 6 8 8 9 10 l1 11 23 30 33 36 45 205 209 2I...new minerals are born, among which are sulphur, realgar AsS, orpiment As 2 S 3 , ematite Fe 2 O 3 , tenorite...discovered annually all over the world. Recent finds in Italy alone, for instance, include roggianite, canavasite...oxides, but it is poisonous, and the procedure too complex to be dealt with here. Some collectors recommend...te Pirostil pni te Proustite Ramdorite Ratite Realgar Samsonite Sartorite Silvanite Simplesite Smithtite
 
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