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Corundum from
Castione, Arbedo-Castione, Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland


Classification
Species:Corundum
Formula:Al2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Corundum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Castione, Arbedo-Castione, Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:549711
Long-form Identifier:1:3:549711:9
GUID (UUID V4):e24175b2-a1ab-4965-bdf8-09fa9a8c48de
Nearest other occurrences of Corundum
19.4km (12.1 miles) Borgo peridotite outcrop, Livo, Como Province, Lombardy, Italy
36.0km (22.4 miles) Stüei, Campolungo, Piumogna Valley, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
36.1km (22.4 miles) Campolungo, Piumogna Valley, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
36.7km (22.8 miles) Venett (Vanit; Cadonighino pass), Campolungo, Piumogna Valley, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
44.4km (27.6 miles) Rio della Lisca (Cappella del Group), Malesco, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
49.5km (30.8 miles) Bocchetta di Campo pegmatite, Malesco, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
53.3km (33.1 miles) Sissone Valley, Chiesa in Valmalenco, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
55.4km (34.4 miles) Mont'Orfano (Montorfano), Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
58.8km (36.5 miles) Crevoladossola Quarry, Crevoladossola, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
82.2km (51.1 miles) Croso della Gavala plumasite outcrop, Vocca, Vercelli Province, Piedmont, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lepontine dome of Central Switzerland, in the Prättigau half window of East Switzerland, and in the Tsaté Nappe...calcschists, and calcareous flysch (Valais and East Switzerland); iii) dolomites, limestones, shales, (West Alps...Landquardt Passugg 300 400 500 Temperature \ °C Castione Rosswald 0.5 Brig Bergell intrusion 300 400...Amphibolite Sample location 20 km 550 60 Brig 0 20' Castione Varzo 65 0 Rosswald Periadriatic Lineament...Varzo Varzo Varzo Varzo Varzo Crevola Crevola Castione Castione Calcschist Musc-calc schist Black shale Calcschist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AMPHIBOLITIZED ECLOGITES OF GORDUNO, LEPONTINE ALPS, SWITZERLAND ROSANGELA BOCCHIO 1, GIUSEPPE LIBORIO 1 and...amphibolitized eclogites of Gorduno, Lepontine Alps, Switzerland. In: D.C. Smith, G. Franz and D. Gebauer (Guest-Editors)...amphibolite-facies gneisses outcropping west of Bellinzona, from Gorduno up to Alpe Arami, include boudins...geology b e t w e e n t h e Ticino river valley and Alpe Arami, C a n t o n Ticino (after G e o l o g i s...l s : 1 = r e c e n t s e d i m e n t s o f the Ticino River; 2 = V o g o r n o gneiss, w i t h i n t
Book
aragonite 45, 45 arduinite 119, /2/ beudantite 58 corundum 25, 25 cornetite 66, 66 biotite 80, 104 covellite...Missouri: brown-red ones are obtained at Binnatal in Switzerland and at Picos de Europa near Santander in Spain...silver tennantite found in dolomite at Binnatal, Switzerland. Good crystals I occur at Freiberg in Saxony...which can be found in dolomite at Binnatal in Switzerland. They have a tabular or prismatic habit, lead-gray...Baia-Sprie, and Sdcdrimb in Romania, Bin- natal in Switzerland, and Matra in Corsica. In the United States,
boracite 55 borates 38 bornite 8 boulangerite 18 corundum 25, 25 cornetite 66, 66 cotunnite 22, 22 covellite...Missouri; brown-red ones are obtained at Binnatal in Switzerland and at Picos de Europa near Santander in Spain...binnite at is a silver Binnatal, tennantite Switzerland. Good found in crystals if occur at Freiberg...which can be found in dolomite at Binnatal in Switzerland. They have a tabular or prismatic habit, lead-gray...Baia-Sprie, and SAcdrimb in Romania, Binnatal in Switzerland, and Matra in Corsica. In the United States
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copper vitriol 59 coquimbite 60 cordierite 95 corundum 25, 25 cornetite 66, 66 cotunnite 22, 22 covellite...brown-red ones are obtained at Bin natal in Switzerland and at Picos de Europa near Santander in Spain...silver tennantite found in dolomite at Binnatal, Switzerland. Good crystals ll occur at Freiberg in Saxony...which can be found in dolomite at Binnatal in Switzerland. They have a tabular or prismatic habit, lead-gray...Baia-Sprie, and Sacarimb in Romania, Binnatal in Switzerland, and Matra in Corsica. In the United States,
Book
planes of weakness parallel to twin lamellae as in corundum (Pl. 12, p. 64), or parallel to planes of intergrowths...distinct habits or from particular localities; corundum, for example, i~ also known as sapphire and ruby...large crystals of garnet, idocrase, andalusite, corundum, spine! etc. Regional metamorphism, caused by...graphite graphite quartz quartz coal emery corundum magnetite, etc. bauxite afuminum f!Jdroxide...8 7 quartz Si0 2 8 topaz Al 2 Si0 4 (F, OH) 9 corundum Al 2 0 3 10 diamond C • PLA n;; 9 Realgar and
Book (edition)
hexagonal dipyramid dihexagonal prism hexagonal prism corundum scalenohedron hematite hexagonal prism basal...Hopper faces in a quartz crystal (St. Gotthard, Switzerland) Furthermore, the external form of minerals...association of rutile crystals on hematite (Grigioni, Switzerland). 35 Examples of twins: (1 , 2) Interpenetrating...FLUORITE APATITE 8. ORTHOCLASE QUARTZ TOPAZ 9. CORUNDUM 10. DIAMOND istic angle between the planes...(apatites, monazite), oxides (cassiterite, columbite, corundum, uraninite, thorianite), halides (cryolite) and
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in 1948 by the Verlag Birkhauser, of Basel, Switzerland, is devoted to a general survey of rocks and...Admixtures tee FELS, 120 3555 fm 2. CALC-SILICATE CASTIONE by the above 2. Mica, > diopside li 4 P : *...system, have structures of the [ROs] type. 4. Corundum, AlOz; Hardness 9, specific gravity 3.9-4.1. Al...74.6 €) Hl Halite 58.4 Al Fe O; O3 G Hm Corundum Hematite 51.0 79.8 Si Ox re Zircon 91.6...52a Biotite (ideal magnesium) Basaltic augite Corundum (Ch 1(CaO-CO,) Chl See p. 96. Cm 3(FeO -Cr
Book (edition)
1.3b from the Lagetti locality (Valle Maggia, Ticino, Swiss Alps). It shows the gradual transition of...granite (Matorello granite, Lagetti, Valle Maggia, Ticino, Swiss Alps) a b broken layered hornfels talc...an Al2SiO5 polymorph is always more stable than corundum. This, in turn, requires that the composition...g. in quartz-absent corundum-bearing metapelites one may project through corundum onto an QFM plane. 3...orogenic collision- type metamorphic structure of the Ticino area in the Central Alps (Fig. 4.8). Engi et al
Journal (volume)
Pigorini wrote of it in 1883 (Terramara situata in Castione del Marches! p. 25). The archaeo', stratum is...like them, they are wrought free hand with the corundum point, and not with the revolving disk, which...bones of other deer in the lake dwellings of Switzerland and Bavaria, showing that, about 1200 800 B....ROMAN BRIDGE. lowness of the water in the river Ticino, Dr. Taramelli was able during the summer of 1893
Book (volume)
Lampeter, 1880-1881. Guide to Grindelwald; Guide to Switzerland; The Alps in Nature and L History; &c. Editor...navigable as far as St Omer; and a river of Switzerland, in the cantons of Lucerne and Aargau, which...river which both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland. Its total length (including all bends) from...war called the " Sonderbund War," in 1847 in Switzerland. The cantonal constitution dates mainly from...Luthcranism, and after a temporary residence in Switzerland and at Strassburg, he arrived in England refuge
 
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