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Pentlandite from
Valmaggia, Cravagliana, Vercelli Province, Piedmont, Italy


Classification
Species:Pentlandite
Formula:(NixFey)Σ9S8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pentlandite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Valmaggia, Cravagliana, Vercelli Province, Piedmont, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:540081
Long-form Identifier:1:3:540081:2
GUID (UUID V4):0a45971a-8eb9-4c3f-b61a-6adf7ec39f65
Nearest other occurrences of Pentlandite
2.6km (1.6 miles) Isola Mine, Vocca, Vercelli Province, Piedmont, Italy
9.4km (5.8 miles) Balma Mine, Campello Monti, Valstrona, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
9.6km (5.9 miles) Pennino Grande Mine, Campello Monti, Valstrona, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
10.0km (6.2 miles) Fei di Doccio, Quarona, Vercelli Province, Piedmont, Italy
11.2km (7.0 miles) Alvani Mine, Campello Monti, Valstrona, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
20.8km (12.9 miles) Migiandone Mine (Miggiandone), Ornavasso, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
23.5km (14.6 miles) Nibbio Mine (Turrio Mine), Nibbio, Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
38.1km (23.7 miles) Riffel Alp, Zermatt, Visp, Valais, Switzerland
53.5km (33.3 miles) Monte Cervandone area, Devero Alp, Baceno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
55.0km (34.2 miles) Moiry Glacier, Moiry Valley, Grimentz, Anniviers, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deep crust: the ultramafic pipe of Valmaggia, Ivrea-Verbano, Italy G. Sessa, M. Moroni, S. Tumiati, S...deep crust: the ultramafic pipe of Valmaggia, IvreaVerbano, Italy, Ore Geology Reviews (2017), doi: http://dx...deep crust: the ultramafic pipe of Valmaggia, Ivrea-Verbano, Italy Sessa G.1, Moroni M.1, Tumiati S.1...Sciences Dept., Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, 2CET/CCFS, School of Earth Sciences, The University...Australia, Perth, Western Australia Abstract The Valmaggia ultramafic pipe belongs to a group of Fe-Ni-Cu-PGE-rich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Introduction The Ivrea-Verbano Zone (IVZ) in northwest Italy (Fig. 1) represents a section of PT continental...NU 2. RI U-Pb zircon geochronology on the Valmaggia pipe. 2.1 Ivrea-Verbano Zone MA The Ivrea-Verbano...subvertically over ~150 x 15 km, extending from northwest Italy into southern Switzerland (Fig. 1). To the west...localities of Bec d’Ovaga, Castello di Gavala, Valmaggia, and Piancone la Frera (Fig. 1). One pipe, at...in the pipes consists mostly of pyrrhotite, pentlandite and chalcopyrite with minor amounts of cubanite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Ivrea-Verbano basic complex (western Alps, Italy) G. Garuti, P. Fiandri and A. Rossi Istituto di...Universit&di Modena, Largo S. Eufemia 19, 1-41100 Modena, Italy Abstract. The bulk composition, mineralogy and mineral...from which pentlandite and chalcopyrite were formed through subsolidus exsolution. Pentlandite from contaminated...6ula La Baha - Monte Capio Sella Bassa Piancone Valmaggia Bec d'Ovaga Castello di Gavala Fei di Ooccio...Capio Isola lliititii21 L~,--,'~-~,~,~~~'~ [ Valmaggia Fig. 2. Cross-sections representing sulfide mineralization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ni-Fe-Cu sulfide deposits of the Ivrea Verbano Zone (Italy): An electron microprobe study Federica Zaccarini...from Ni-Fe-Cu deposits of the Ivrea Verbano Zone, Italy. The investigated deposits can be divided into three...group elements were analyzed in pyrrhotite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite and pyrite. The analyses of Os...Platinum and Pd are hosted mainly in pyrrhotite and pentlandite, in about the same proportion; a minor amount...in pyrrhotite and only the 28 % and 10 % in pentlandite and chalcopyrite, respectively. Nearly all of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petrogenesis of the Ultramafic Pipes in the Ivrea Zone, NW Italy G. GARUTI1∗, F. BEA2, F. ZACCARINI3 AND P. MONTERO2...UNIVERSITY OF MODENA, ST EUFEMIA 19, MODENA 41100, ITALY 2 DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY, UNIVERSITY... PIAZZA DI PORTA S. DONATA 1, I-40126 BOLOGNA, ITALY RECEIVED JUNE 22, 1999; REVISED TYPESCRIPT ACCEPTED...and the roof metasediments of the Ivrea Zone, NW Italy. These bodies were emplaced at 287 ± 3 Ma and represent...garutig@unimo.it INTRODUCTION The Ivrea Zone, in NW Italy, is believed to represent an exposed section of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universityof Modena,Via S. Eufemia,19, 1-41100Modena,Italy Abstract Melonitc,merenskyite, andmoncheiteoccurasminutegrains(40...(cyclicunits);5 = Piancone;6 -- SellaBassa(main gabbro);7 = Valmaggia;8 = Becd'Ovaga;9 -- Castellodi Gavala;10 = Fei...Merenskyitecolameliar silicates,in thoseportionsof the Valmaggia existswith the followingbasemetalsulfides:pyrrhotite...cyclicunitsandof the maingabbro. lonite(bothincludedin pentlandite).The grainsshow Only onegrainof merenskyite wasfoundin...isabsent;partialsubstitution of inclusionin pentlandite),mostof it mustbe ascribed Ni andPt for Pd occursin
Report (issue)
LOWER CRUST IN THE IVREA-VERBANO ZONE, NORTHERN ITALY by Carl R. Thornber1, James E. Quick1, Adriano...di Trieste, Piazzale Europa, 1,1-34100, Trieste, Italy 1993 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 REGIONAL...are in the lower crust of the Basin and Range Province, the Rio Grande rift, the Salton Trough, the Midcontinental...directly. The Ivrea-Verbano zone (IVZ) of northern Italy is one of the few places in the world where magmatically...high-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Alps of northwestern Italy (Figure 1; Mehnert, 1975) that are thought to represent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogiae Petrologia,Universitadi Modena,Modena,Italy ANTHONYJ. NALDRET'F, Departmentof Geology,Earth...a Terra, Universitadegli Studidi Milano,Milan, Italy Abstract The Ivrea zone consistsof continentalcrust...0361-0128/90/1044/328-953.00 328 PGEELEMENTS,IVREAZONE,ITALY formationand to relate the compositionof the ores...Baldissero, 5. The ultramaficpipes(Plancone, Valmaggia,Bec and Finero. These are mainly lherzolitesand...dominatedby the typicalmagmaticassemblagepyrrhotite-pentlandite-chalcopyrite, with minor cubanite,mackinawite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation that consists of pyrrhotite, pyrite, 22 pentlandite and chalcopyrite. In-situ SHRIMP analyses on...including pyrrhotite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and pentlandite. Similar sulfide 52 mineralisation is also...contain Ni and Cu reflected in the presence of pentlandite and chalcopyrite. 383 From a qualitative point...399 chalcopyrite and pentlandite (Fig. 19). In numerous samples, pentlandite forms lamellar exsolutions...rounded inclusions of either pyrrhotite and pentlandite or spinel. Pyrite commonly forms 402 rounded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
often-elongated (flamelike) inclusions of Ni-Co-rich pentlandite (Fig. 4a) that likely exsolved with decreasing...Semi-quantitative EDS analyses of Ni–Co-rich pentlandite included in heazlewoodite yielded Ni and Co contents...copper (Cu), Cu-sulphide (CuS) and Ni–Co-rich pentlandite (Ni–Co Pn) in heazlewoodite (Hz); b and d Ni–Fe–Ti–...and (4) the presence native copper, Ni-Co-rich pentlandite and Sb-bearing gersdorffite in heazlewoodite...grains with exsolution flames of Ni-Co-rich pentlandite might indicate that the phase (Ni, Fe, Co)3-xS2
Journal (issue)
pubblicate sui notiziari 2005 e 2006 PROVINCIA DI VERCELLI ALAGNA VALSESIA ALPE SOLEGNO ARSENOPIRITE(6C...BALMUCCIA VAL SESIA ex miniera ni SPINELLO-PENTLANDITE-PIRROTITE CAMASCO VALSESIA QUARZO ROSA CASA...CEVIA E LAGHETTO SABBIA VAL SESIA ex miniera ni PENTLANDITE-PIRROTITE-CALCOPIRITE COL D'OLEN ALAGNA VAL... GULA CRAVEGLIANA VAL SESIA ex miniera ni PENTLANDITE-PIRROTITE KREAS ALAGNA VAL SESIA ex miniera...AGONITE-GESSO-CALCOPIRITECLORITE-LAUMONTITE-PENTLANDITE-PIRROTITE ISOLELLA AGOGNA VALSESIA ANDALUS
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
sulphide deposits, Ivrea Verbano Zone, Northern Italy ..................................................Ni-Fe-Cu sulfide deposits of the Ivrea Verbano Zone (Italy) .................................................part of Sweden’s oldest and most classical ore province, Bergslagen. Mining commenced in this area at...Palaeoproterozoic Aileron Province and the Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic Irindina Province, which are overlain...Palaeoproterozoic metamorphic rocks within the Aileron Province have protolith ages typically in the range 1850-1780
Report (issue)
Eastern Germany) Greece • • • • • • • • • • •• Italy • • • • • • • • • • • Norway • • • • • • • • • •...quantities imported by Federal Germany, New Zealand, Italy, Sweden, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Yugoslavia...amounts came from Japan, Chile, Sweden, Bolivia, Italy and Mexico, in that order, but production from these...alloys and scrap) .. • • • • Cobalt oxide • • •• Italy: Cobalt (including alloys and scrap) • • •• •• Portugal:...copper-cobalt deposits occur in a mineralised province that extends in an arc for some 400 miles along
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volume percent sulfide (most commonly pyrrhotite, pentlandite and chalcopyrite) and associated PGE minerals...and is part of the North Atlantic Large Igneous Province. Although magmatism of the East Greenland rifted...vesicle-free but crystal-rich tephra from Mount Etna, Italy, Villarrica, Chile and Medicine Lake Volcano, California...up the reef rocks (pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, pentlandite) and containing platinum-group minerals such...(2015, 2016). They are composed of pyrrhotite + pentlandite  chalcopyrite + pyrite, the latter presumably
 
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