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Spinel from
Forno glacier, Val Forno, Upper Val Bregaglia, Bregaglia, Maloja Region, Grisons, Switzerland


Locality type:Glacier
Classification
Species:Spinel
Formula:MgAl2O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spinel data
Locality Data:Click here to view Forno glacier, Val Forno, Upper Val Bregaglia, Bregaglia, Maloja Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:558967
Long-form Identifier:1:3:558967:8
GUID (UUID V4):2528332f-a61d-4046-8021-c94a00ee3363
Nearest other occurrences of Spinel
2.4km (1.5 miles) Cima di Vazzeda, Val Forno, Upper Val Bregaglia, Bregaglia, Maloja Region, Grisons, Switzerland
3.5km (2.1 miles) Cima Vazzeda, Sissone Valley, Chiesa in Valmalenco, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
5.1km (3.2 miles) Sissone Valley, Chiesa in Valmalenco, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
9.5km (5.9 miles) Preda Rossa Valley, Val Masino, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
10.0km (6.2 miles) Punta Trubinasca, Codera Valley, Novate Mezzola, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
10.1km (6.3 miles) Alpe Girosso, Braccia Mountain, Chiesa in Valmalenco, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
12.9km (8.0 miles) Averta Valley (Northern Glacial Cirque), Codera Valley, Novate Mezzola, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
15.7km (9.7 miles) Bagnada-Ponticelli Mine (ex-Bolognini Mine; ex-Unitalc Mine), Lanzada, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
22.5km (14.0 miles) San Giorgio, Codera Valley, Novate Mezzola, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
33.2km (20.7 miles) Borgo peridotite outcrop, Livo, Como Province, Lombardy, Italy
References
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localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...9: 1 (Gaines, 1971; Pimentel er al., 2009). SWITZERLAND Maderanertal east of Arnsteg, Uri. In the world...in numerous localities in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri...to Val Caverdiras; ilmenite rose-bearing clefts are found fairly commonly throughout this region, such...about 20 other quartz mines are operated in the region of the Subpolar Urals, northwest of Saranpaul,
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508 Ivory Coast, 462 Sweden, Japan, 462 Switzerland, 510 Tanzania 463 Madagascar (Malagasy Republic)...Oceanside, York, Roland Dr. K. CA; Milton Switzerland; Hans Stern, Austria; the United States and...discouragingly on of events scientific-geological the region inwas and mineral- feasibility of working profit...aquamarines the as type in discovery could have region stated unequivocally the been found in Antiquity...Mountains, prehistoric turquoise,” gemstones, region is mining activity. Eichholz suggests probably
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felspars are the most important mineral group in the upper lithosphere. The ubiquity of the felspars together...after the locality in the Adular Mountains, Switzerland. Sanidine is named from the Greek sanis (tablet)...sodium to pure potassium felspar corresponds to a region of unmixing, and the unmixing occurs on a coarser...result of heating orthoclase microperthites in the region 600°-1025°C. is an exchange of sodium and potassium...crystal of anorthoelase, basaltic lava, Darigan region, S.E. Mongolia (Vlodavetz & Shavrova, 1963). (Includes
 
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