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Augite from
Oropa, Biella, Biella Province, Piedmont, Italy


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Augite
Formula:(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Augite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Oropa, Biella, Biella Province, Piedmont, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:532139
Long-form Identifier:1:3:532139:1
GUID (UUID V4):56666fcf-0d5c-428c-8f9c-3e37427cfdfd
Nearest other occurrences of Augite
19.0km (11.8 miles) Brosso Mine, Calea, Lessolo, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
19.6km (12.2 miles) Montaju, Traversella, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
20.1km (12.5 miles) Brosso Quarry, Brosso, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
21.5km (13.3 miles) Pian degli Svedesi, Traversella, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
21.5km (13.3 miles) Traversella Mine, Traversella, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
45.6km (28.3 miles) Monte Eyehorn pegmatites (Monte Ehie Horn pegmatites), Valstrona, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
49.0km (30.5 miles) Cogne Mines, Cogne, Aosta Valley, Italy
49.8km (31.0 miles) Ghiacciaio del Bottarello, Val Loranco, Antrona Schieranco, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
52.4km (32.5 miles) La Piana Alp, Premosello-Chiovenda, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
6/7/15 6:21 PM 464 Franz Angel 2. Syenit von Biella und seine Hornblende (4). Gest.-N. Min.-N. qu...hervorgehoben. Im gerade erörterten Fall des Syenites von Biella spricht es sich aber deutlich aus. Ich komme also...Eklogitpyroxene. or Süden Fay Rödhaugen Burgstein Söndmöre Oropa Eppenrout ab ne an hy di 1,5 1 0 , 8 5,5...Chemische Untersuchung einiger Hornblenden und Augite aus Basalten der Rhön. N. Jb. Min., Beil.-Bd. 29
Book (volume)
ITALIAN MOUNTAIN GEOLOGY ’ PARTS NORTHERN 1 AND [ITALY II AND TUSCANY BY C. S. DU RICHE PRELLER, M...el ITALIAN MOUNTAIN PaRts NORTHERN I anp ITALY GEOLOGY. II. AND TUSCANY. OTHER GEOLOGICAL...(The Moraine Walls and Lake Basins of Northern Italy. The Piedmontese Alps, Ligurian Apennines, Carrara...idem. The Ancient Sea and Lake Basins of Central Italy : idem. Italian Mountain Geology, Part II]. Wheldon...NORTHERN PART I. THE ‘PART II. THE Sslk) AND ITALY GEOLOGY. oll AND TUSCANY. PIEDMONTESE ALPS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Structuralmechanisms of solid solutionand cationorderingin augite-jadeite perspectiYe I. A macroscopic Trzr.q.NA...Universith di Pavia, via Ferrata 1,27100 Pavia, Italy '?Department of Earth Sciences,University of Cambridge...la Cristallochimica, via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy Ansrucr Single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction...solid-solution and cation-orderingbehavior in the system augite-jadeite(low acmite content). We examined 28 natural...(Fez*) <+ Na* + Al3* (Fe3*) along the binary join augite (Aug) (Jd) (NaAF* Si,Ou) fiow ac[Ca(Mg,Fe'z*)Si
Report (issue)
mapped and described by Knopf (1912, pp. 18-20) an augite nolaphyreo are tho northtreatorly continuation...opnsloaorate» Thia latter aoquonoo of rooko 47 oropa out on tho woot eldo of Douglas Island and on Portland...vicinity of Nevada Crock, tho Treartwoll olato oropa out over a tfidth of looo then half a mllo. To...The hornblende is dark groen and oecondary after augite. Magnetite is a common acoocJLO oory and at places...hornblende gabbro. The hornblende waa formed from augite which forma the centers of some of the hornblende
Report (issue)
shonkinite, in which chiefly biotite and some augite or hornblende occur as phonocrysts, is cosaaon...the feldspar. Mafic minerals such as hornblende, augite, sodic amphiboles and pyroxenes, and biotite constitute...leucocratic granitic rocks chiefly biotite. Soase augite grains have rims of hornblende. Most of the dark...late mineral replacing other siinerals such as augite, in veinlets cutting other minerals, and in one...(riebeckite?), and rarely aegirine or aegirine-augite, essentially the sama mafic minerals ad in the
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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...sublimation craters. Germany, Hungary, Japan, and Italy. of sea water. Deep deposits, due to their ASSOCIATED...Violet rock salt (ca. x 1), Calascibetta, Enna, Italy. TRANSPARENT MINERALS 37 FLUORITE FLUORITE
Corporate Document
right: Syenite distributed in Chilwa Alkaline Province in the south of Malawi (Cretaceous, Mesozoic)...it is said to be close to the development stage. Oropa Exploration Inc. (Australia) is exploring radioactive...southern part of Balaka district. the Northern Province of Malawi. Premier Team Work and Batolwe Mining...and so on) and is distributed in Chilwa alkaline province in the southern Malawi. These carbonatite characteristically...mineral exploration project in Chilwa-alkaline province” (JICA/MMAJ, 1986~1989) was executed focusing
Report (issue)
the U.S., England, France, Germany, Austria, and Italy. Many folders have summaries of the chemistry, prepared...164141 (1983). Occurrence at Montaldo di Castro, Italy. AGARDITE-(Ce). Fehr and Hochleitner (Lapis 1...crystals) ALLANITE. Visoni and Zerpolo (Moderna, Italy), Neues Jahrb. Mineral., Monatsh. 6, 413-423 (1984)...Microprobe analyses (1) from Phlegrean Fields, Italy. AMPHIBOLE. Asami and Shiraishi, Proc. 3rd Symp...). Microprobe analyses (3) from Latera caldera, Italy. AMPHIBOLE. Barink, Lithos 17, 247-258 (1984) (English)
Book (volume)
Analysen kalkarmer Augite mit Überschuß von MgSiO, oder (Mg, Fe) SiO, 535. ― Augite mit kleinerem Überschuß...von MgSiO 537. - Eisenfreier Tonerdeaugit 537. - Augite mit Tonerde und EisenAugite mit viel Tonerde und...Eisenorxyd 537. Augite mit hohem Gehalt an Tonerde , geringem Gehalt Eisen 538. an Eisenoxyd 539. Augite mit hohem...Tonerdegehalt 541. Diopsidähnliche Augite mit wenig Tonerde und Eisenoxyd 542. Augite mit wenig Sesquioxyden, aber...aber viel Eisenoxydul 546. Augite mit größerem Gehalt an Eisenoxydul, geringem Magnesiagehalt und merklichem
Book (volume)
and Newla.nds mines under wha t h e c alled an augite-free micnceous k.imbe.rlite. because he savs :...near Heidelberg in _the Riversdale district, Cape Province, over 350 yards long and IOO yards wide. In reference...Transkei ; the Stormberg of the north-eastern Cape Province ; the Sneeuw­ berg, Nieuwveld, Komsberg, Roggeveld...gneisses, etc., in the north and west of the Cape Province and the Transvaal and Natal. ( b) The intrusion...(a) Intrusions of younger granites of the Cape Province. ( b) Intrusion of the Bushveld Complex. Mountain
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2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...Administered Tribal Areas and North West Frontier Province. Ilmenite crystal clusters to 12 cm across have...Mountain, Warsak district, North West Frontier Province. Surface diggings worked by local people on Zagi...in which euhedral crystals of andesine feldspar, augite and ilmenite rest on matrix of fine-grained basalt...onalcommunication, 2007). 4 ITALY Rio Marina area, Island of Elba, Tuscany. Elba (Latin:
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importance even humanity that a major planet was given province over occupations connected with Mother Earth....Hornblende, olivine, pyroxenes Absence of quartz augite, Olivine present Plagioclase, Coarse or other...molybdenum Contact-metamorphic minerals, olivine, augite Quartz-family minerals A RANGE GUIDE TO MINES...allophane, ankerite, apatite, arkansite crystals, augite, avert turine, braunite, brookite, cinnamon ...fayalite, with cristobalite. ferric silicate— c/?/oropa/(?). 92 CALIFORNIA and orthoclase. Darwin, (1)
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between Vienna and Graz in Austria and Genova in Italy. They resulted from the collision of the African...Bernina Massif (Grisons, Switzerland; Valtellina, Italy). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Metamorphic Histories in the Orobic Southern Alps, Italy ..................................................Basement in the Alpi Apuane (Northern Apennines, Italy) . . .. 609 P. CONTI, A. DI PISA, M. GATTIGLIO,...Via Accademia delle Scienze, S 1-10123 Torino, Italy CHESSEX,R. Dept. de Mineralogie, Rue des Maraichers
Book (volume)
Kimberlite Magmatism in the Yakutian Kimberlite Province: Constraints from Isotope Geochronology—An Overview...the Wesselton Mine kimberlite, Kimberley, Cape Province, R.S.A. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Cape Town...cratonic mantle beneath the central Archean Slave Province, NWT, Canada. Contrib Miner Petrol 134:313–324...Archean mantle beneath the Proterozoic Yavapai province. Geochimicaet Cosmochimica Acta 72:1685–1695 ...uk  Lesotho geothermal gradient kimberlite province of South Africa (Nixon 1973). Zircon from the
Report (issue)
crust (though there are areas such as the Superior province shield for which the average lead is more radiogenic...provinces (Figure 1 ) . The eastern heat flow province is characterized by normal beat flow values (d1...radioactivitv in near-surface rocks. The western heat flow province is characterized by generally high values (-2...temperatures in the mantle. EASTERN PROVINCE Heat flow in the eastern province is normally about 1.1 HFU, the...is the same as that for the rest of the eastern province, then the value of 0.8 HFU implies that the contribution
Report (issue)
plagioclase and augite. srach of i^hich is altered to txralite* Scene of the larger grains of augite may have...tuffaf varying in tMnknaaa froa * 10 to 60 feet* It oropa out in tha extreme eoutimeet corner of, tha aap...unaltered or partially altered grains of pyroxene (augite). The groundmass is a much finer grained, granular...dark-colored phenocrysts of ferrenag&aslan minerals (augite (?) and divine)* Many irregularly shaped resides
Report (volume)
lower Volcanic Member is composed of hornblende and augite andesites with intercalated tufts, limestones,...age have been ascribed to the Cathaysian floral province (van Overeem 1960). Tempilang Sandstone (Mid-Late...Metasediments derived from acid-intermediate volcanic arc province Ocean-floor or trench deposit D~ schistosity...andesites, dacites and bedded tufts with clasts of augite, hornblende, chlorite and glass. These rocks are...These characteristics are typical of the Eastern Province Granites of Peninsular Malaysia and the Tin Islands
Report (issue)
large (shrinkage?) bubble.Fromlhe Dolomite Mts.. Italy (Clocchiaui1975).(8) Multipleelongatesilicate Ml...peralkalinerhyolites (pantellerites) from Pantelleria, Italy, have melt Cl concentrationsconsistentwith saturationwith...feldsparfrom lbe peralbline rllYllililllha Plnlelleria,Italy. Whenheatedto ...... lie. lllllpelltUra, these clusters...in the Mount Genis granite (southeastem Sardinia,Italy). Geoc/tia Cosmoch,m.Acta 56, 21-33. CZAMANSKE...nodules from alkalinelavas of Mouat Etna (Sicily, Italy): melt and fluid inclusion evidence. 1 Volcano/
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- A r mineral ages of rocks from the Superior Province near Kirkland Lake, northeastern Ontario, Canada...altered gneisses and granulites of the Broken Hill province and other mobile belts (Brown et al., 1968). Progress...to study the Archean craton called the Superior Province, while Wynne-Edwards (1969) and geologists of...younger metamorphic mobile belt of the Grenville Province. Although its northern margin incorporates reworked...older provinces, attempts to show that the whole province is so constructed and that there has been no continental
Report (Issue volume)
chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite. Gangue: Calcite, grossularite, augite, diopside, epidote, prehnite, scapolite (?), vesuvianite...(1908). Ore: Gold. Ref: 116, no. 4, 1908, p. 91. Oropa cum (43) Mountain View (103) (see under silver)
 
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