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Omphacite from
Oropa, Biella, Biella Province, Piedmont, Italy


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Omphacite
Formula:(NaaCabFec2+Mgd)(AleFef3+Feg2+Mgh)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Omphacite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Oropa, Biella, Biella Province, Piedmont, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:532140
Long-form Identifier:1:3:532140:7
GUID (UUID V4):c9052a51-13af-42d7-8486-8430193b0319
Nearest other occurrences of Omphacite
13.8km (8.6 miles) Iveri, Pont-Saint-Martin, Aosta Valley, Italy
14.5km (9.0 miles) Montestrutto glacial terrace, Settimo Vittone, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
14.5km (9.0 miles) Ivozio, Borgofranco d'Ivrea, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
15.9km (9.9 miles) Bric Vert, Quincinetto, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
18.5km (11.5 miles) Le Colme, Brosso, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
31.4km (19.5 miles) Monte Nero, Vallone di Vercoche, Valle della Legna (Vallée de l'Alleigne), Champorcher, Aosta Valley, Italy
32.9km (20.4 miles) Palon di Resy, Champoluc, Ayas, Aosta Valley, Italy
41.7km (25.9 miles) Servette-Chuc mining complex, Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy
41.7km (25.9 miles) Praborna Mine, Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy
46.8km (29.1 miles) Allalin glacier, Allalin area, Saas-Almagell, Visp, Valais, Switzerland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Lanzo, and, extending from Lanzo to Ivrea, Biella, and Val Sesia, reaches beyond the latter into...triclinic felspar and quartz, contains garnet, omphacite, biotite, sillimanite, and graphite as associated...of eclogitic mica-schists, viz. with garnet, omphacite, and blue glaucophane, corresponding to those...syenite also crop out north of Biella in the Cervo Valley, while east of Biella to Val Sesia and Lake Orta...north-east to Donato, Ceresito, Graglia, Pollone, and Biella (410 m.), traverses the Cervo Valley at Andorno
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
layers from the Monte Mucrone area (Western Alps, Italy). These garnet crystals are characterized by a peninsula-shaped...from the Monte Mucrone (western Alps, Sesia zone, Italy). High-resolution X-ray computed tomography, electron-probe...Geological map of the Sesia zone in the NW Alps of Italy modified after Venturini et al. (1994). Eoalpine...of Monte Mucrone to the northwest of Biella, in the upper Oropa valley (Fig. 2). The Monte Mucrone area...along with white mica, garnet and omphacite. Garnet and omphacite form large (up to 2 mm) crystals that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eppenreuth)--contain significant kyanite interspersed among the omphacite grains or associated with accessory quartz and...Kor Alps (Carinthia and Styria) [7], Graian Aips (Italy) [8], and several regions in France [9]. An important...(Silberbach and Weissenstein) consist essentially of omphacite, garnet, and kyanite with accessory quartz, rutile...r]y in the parallel orientated silky lustred omphacite (cf. descriptions by Drill [3], p. 141). 424...diopside-plagioclase s y m p l e c t i t e (?) from the omphacite. Eclogite 2 has o n l y accessory apatite, iron
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)
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...MartinianaDora-Maira Brossasco Dora-Maira Brossasco Dora-Maira Oropa Sesia-Lanzo QuassoloSesia-Lanzo BrossoSesia-Lanzo...6OVoJd (the composition range of ordered P2/n omphacite).Five 20 mg samples of crystals from 74AM33 were...uousvariationof the kinetic dataof sample74AM33to reach omphacite. straight line representingthe ideal behavior
Report (volume)
faults within the Colfiorito fault system (central Italy) AUSTIN, N. J. & KENNEDY,L. A. Textural controls...locality near Sestri Levante in the Liguride units, Italy (see hammer for scale). model also allows the introduction...faults within the Colfiorito fault system (central Italy) F. M I R A B E L L A , V. B O C C A L I & M. R...di Perugia, piazza Universith 1, 06100 Perugia, Italy (e-mail: mirabell@ unipg, it) Abstract: Fault segments...faults of the Colfiorito fault system (central Italy), which consists of four main fault segments and
Book
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
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
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
Book (volume)
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...Mountain building in south and west of Cape Province. Long period of depression in the north, west and south
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
Book
importance even humanity that a major planet was given province over occupations connected with Mother Earth....fayalite, with cristobalite. ferric silicate— c/?/oropa/(?). 92 CALIFORNIA and orthoclase. Darwin, (1)...sparingly encountered. The state lies within the province of the At- Appalachian Mountain system. The Fall...Newark to mark the border between the small upland Piedmont lantic Coastal Plain east of the region and the...Plateau, Appalachian Valley, Appalachian Mountains, Piedmont Plain, and the Atlantic Coastal Plain. conditions:
 
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