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Sulphur from
Gypsum quarries, Gessi, Moncalvo, Asti Province, Piedmont, Italy


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Sulphur
Formula:S8
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sulphur data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gypsum quarries, Gessi, Moncalvo, Asti Province, Piedmont, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:695487
Long-form Identifier:1:3:695487:1
GUID (UUID V4):ad532570-0727-4504-8f78-99ba057854ce
Nearest other occurrences of Sulphur
59.8km (37.2 miles) Borgofranco Mines, Biò, Borgofranco d'Ivrea, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
59.9km (37.2 miles) Brosso Mine, Calea, Lessolo, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
63.0km (39.2 miles) Poggio San Vittore asbestos mine, Balangero, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
63.8km (39.7 miles) Traversella Mine, Traversella, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
65.5km (40.7 miles) Montalfeo (Monte Alfeo), Godiasco Salice Terme, Pavia Province, Lombardy, Italy
69.7km (43.3 miles) Quittengo, Campiglia Cervo, Biella Province, Piedmont, Italy
70.6km (43.9 miles) Alpe Machetto Mine, Cascine Machetto, Quittengo, Campiglia Cervo, Biella Province, Piedmont, Italy
72.2km (44.9 miles) Camarà (Cammarà; Camarata), Corvino San Quirico, Pavia Province, Lombardy, Italy
80.8km (50.2 miles) Pastori Mine, Pastori, Murialdo, Savona Province, Liguria, Italy
81.1km (50.4 miles) Mt. Ramazzo Mine, Borzoli, Genoa, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cleavable mass of selenite, (gypsum). The specimen comes from the gypsum quarries at Alabaster, Iosco Co....Blue Earth Co., Minn., is noted for its marble quarries. Most of the stone is medium-grained, buff to...Scheelite, small spots in limestone, fl. blue. Sulphur, in barite nodules. Drusy Quartz, small terminations...believed that it was worked during the Civil War for sulphur, although only meager records which Mr. Veenfliet...to Princeton there are two or three limestone quarries. All three have quite a bit of calcite, mostly
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS MINERAL RESOURCES DIVISION GYPSUM AND ANHYDRI E By A. w. GROVES, D.Sc.(Lond...where available . •• • . 11 • CONTENTS PAGE GYPSUM AND ANHYDRITE Introduction . . . . . . . . Principal.... . . . . . . Mode of occurrence . . . . . . . Gypsum in relation to Overseas Mining Laws: Royalties...mining of gypsum deposits . Beneficiation of gypsum . . . . . . Chemical by-product gypsum . . . . .... Uses of gypsum As mined or quarried . . . . . • Crushed gypsum . . . . . . • Ground gypsum . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurs within a gypsum/anhydrite–halite evaporite sequence where it replaces gypsum and gypsified stromatolites...but higher than those of the overlying gypsum unit (Agrón Gypsum; nonmarine). 87Sr/86Sr and δ34S isotope...Agrón Gypsum. The similarity in isotope values between celestine and the corresponding gypsum host in...According to that, both orebodies are diachronous. Gypsum pseudomorphs and molds, intraformational breccias...in these celestine deposits point to dissolved gypsum as the main sulfate source. Diagenetic–hydrothermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lake system, where abundant gypsum deposits occur (Benamaurel and Galera Gypsum units). This paper studies...petrographic and isotopic points of view. All the gypsum has been preserved as primary enabling a good characterization...alternation of gypsum and carbonate laminae accumulated suggesting a seasonal regime. Many of the gypsum laminae...in association with dark lutite levels, gypsum beds, and gypsum nodules and micronodules. Moreover, anoxic...zone, which resulted in the formation of native sulphur occurrences of economic value. In the marginal
Book
inspected. trip Railway’s Hotel. a west proceed Province, and the return iron smelters of Nova of Nova...Elmsdale, of Nova Gypsum) Scotia. SELENITE From (Variety Elmsdale, of Gypsum) Nova Scotia. IRON...and type cleavage market. copper. (Sb2 S3) gypsum, containing It with other metals to pewter.... pigments employed as printing. an and, sulphur one limited a or and as of the a extent...Chrysotile, or serpentine ranges The mineral Province of is found in all grade and green group
Book
substantial proportion of the output of the mines, quarries, raw state or in the form of manufactures and...Plasters Portland Cement 167 169 Lime 178 Gypsum and Gypsum Base Cements 185 Clay 197 PART III Fuels...635 Sulphur and Pyrite Native Sulphur 635 636 Pyrite 643 Economics Halite or of Sulphur and Pyrite...primarily by the fact that, on burning, pyrite yields sulphur dioxide fumes for the making of sulphuric acid...iron. The great competitor of pyrite, elemental sulphur, certainly cannot be spoken of as GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Report (volume)
SURVEY GEOKGE OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 697 GYPSUM DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES BY R. W. STONE....................... Mineralogy and geology of gypsum, by R. W. Stone....................... Chemical..................................... Analyses of gypsum, by R. W. Stone..................................in the chemical analysis of gypsum, by George Steiger............ The gypsum industry, by R. W. Stone......... Cost of gypsum plaster...... I................................... Uses of gypsum..............
Book
perfectly distinct, as in 2. through 3. Quartz and Gypsum. Subtransparent, or semitransparent : it do not...5. Silky, or like silk. is apparent in fibrous Gypsum and Satin Spar. When combined in the same mineral...1. 2. 3. 4. Talc : the common laminated green Gypsum : a crystallized variety. Calc Spar : a transparent...for the recognition- of lithia, boracic acid, and gypsum. " 9th. Lead in a pure metallic state. " 10th Bone-ashes...orange-yellow, without colouring the flame. "e. Sulphur, with the well-known odour of sulphuric acid. "/
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Howlite (silicoborocalcite) from the Winkworth gypsum quarries, the author found two nodules of unfamiliar... Nodules of selenite occasionally occur in the gypsum beds a t Winkworth, exactly resembling the amorphous...cent. iron, 2.28 nickel and cobalt, and 39.41 sulphur. The composition indicates the formula 6FeS FeS...iron, 7.19 antimony, 14.75 arsenic, and 25.12 sulphur. Or by calculation- 1.967 arsenic 0,589 antimony...6.469 copper -- 1.106 zinc 0.425 iron 7.850 sulphur 0.134 lead 2.556 -- 1.665 The metals require
Book (edition)
133 MONOCLINIC SYSTEM 1. Normal Class (28). Gypsum Type Tartaric Acid Type 2. Hemimorphic Class (29)...System) NORMAL CLASS. (Prismatic. Holohedral.) Gypsum Type. 29. HEMIMORPHIC CLASS. Tartaric Acid Type...hence the lengths of the axes express Thus for sulphur (orthorhombic, strictly the axial ratio. see Fig...of the axes. Fig. 51 shows the unit pyramid of sulphur whose symbol is (111); it has eight similar faces...that given above. For example, in Fig. 79, of sulphur, the face lettered x is in the zone in zone (2)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sub-million year resolution, by analyzing exclusively gypsum and anhydrite deposits. We base our reconstruction...literature data from evaporites from Germany, Austria, Italy and the Middle East. We propose a revised correlation...well-dated marine Tethyan sections in northern Italy and the evaporites from Northern Switzerland and...precipitated gypsum may also differ from that of the original sea water sulfate. Because the gypsum precipitating...leading to an increase in δ34S in the precipitated gypsum. However, Fike and Grotzinger (2010) and Raab and
Book
Periclase 29 Brucite, Meerschaum, Steatite Gypsum 30 30 Anhydrite 30 Apatite, Phosphorite 31...39 Anthracite . . . .39 Common Coal . . . .39 Sulphur . . . Millerite, Sulphuret of Nickel 52 Copper...brown and red ironstone, by having given off their sulphur and taken up instead oxygen and wTater, or the...following: Degree ; Hardness of Talc. 2. 3? 33 Gypsum. 3. 33 33 Calcite. 4. 3? 3? Fluor Spar...course ; in many bodies, however, such as calcite, gypsum, etc., the ray divides into two parts, so that
Book
easy to understand what is meant Pr (common gypsum,) In like manner the expression tetarto prismatic...Venetian Talc. f» 2 of a variety of puismatoidal Gypsum, of imperfect cleavage, and not perfectly transparent...Antimony-glance, being found equal to that of Prismatoidal Gypsum line, tic ; lying between that of Rhomboidal... the not-metallic Metal » order Blende der Sulphur. \ ; Pyrites, and Glance ; hardness from the...Genus I. Gypsum. t. Prismatoidal I St Gypsum, or Selenite, 21 Foliated Granular Gypsum, 22 23 Subsp
Book (edition)
in which may have values varyto oo Fig. 208, of sulphur, shows a zone of such planes, of ing from the general...are the same. forms are displayed in f. 208, of sulphur, already tions with referred c : b : to. ... The full symbol of the plane 1-3 is 3a. Sulphur. B. The hemihedral forms The vertically -oblique...is common with orthoclase basal plane. also with gypsum (f. 323). It has (f. 324); also been observed by...twinning with this may be ; ; species. 324 323 Gypsum. Orthoclase. Orthoclase. In f. 332 the vertical
Book (volume)
City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine...marine fossils. WILL COUNTY LEMONT, area quarries⎯glistening Quartz replacement fossils. WILMINGTON, regional...Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. Regional limestone quarries produce some gemmy Apatite, Calcite, Glauconite...Siderite can also be found in regional limestone quarries. ALLEN COUNTY FORT WAYNE: c area farms, as glacial
Book (volume)
City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine...marine fossils. WILL COUNTY LEMONT, area quarries⎯glistening Quartz replacement fossils. WILMINGTON, regional...Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. Regional limestone quarries produce some gemmy Apatite, Calcite, Glauconite...Siderite can also be found in regional limestone quarries. ALLEN COUNTY FORT WAYNE: c area farms, as glacial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the U.S. Gypsum Company's Sperry Mine. Anhydrite is the major sulfate, although gypsum is important...Davenport member consist of nodular to finely laminar gypsum and anhydrite with varying amounts of gray limestone...contain nodular to massive brown anhydrite and gypsum, grading locally into a gray to tan siltstone....both cores vary from coarselycrystalline white gypsum to very fine pale-blue anhydrite, with few impurities...National Gypsum and U.S. Gypsum quarries in Fort Dodge. They are finely-laminated satin spar gypsum, containing
Book (chapter)
red gypsum, the fracture of which presents curved bundles of small crystalline plates ; the gypsum also...The gypseous marls again follow, then very marly gypsum, less red than the preceding, the beds of which...many masses of gypsum are met with separated by pure marls or gypseous marls ; the gypsum, with some few...places, five metres [16£ feet] thick; no trace of gypsum is again found to the summit of the last formation...been discovered in these masses of gypsum. There exists above the gypsum rocks a great height of marls, characterised
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cannot be considered a common species. In the province of Colchagua I have found another species approaching...Beagle' by Mr. Darwin as being so numerous in the province of Concepcion. "Mus longlpilis--Waterh., 'Voy...the streams which enters the river Teno in the province of Colchagua, and my attention was roused by a...in the provinces of Chiloe or Valdivia. In the province Coquimbo, where hedges do not abound, owing to...in the vicinity of the town of Curico, in the province of Colchagua ; it inhabits the hedges made of
Book (edition)
are the same. forms are displayed in f. 208, of sulphur, already The f nil symbol of the plane 1-S is referred...referred to c'.h 3a. tlie tions '. Sulphur. B. Jlemihedral Forms. The heraibedral forms The vertically...thia may be rino; crystal lographic Bpecics. Gypsum. Orthoclase, Orthoclase. Orthoclase. Fig. 333...as is often observed in common salt, alum, and sulphur. This is due in part to their rapid growth. tliird...Fibrous minei-als have often a silky lustre. Ex. gypsum, asbeatua 112 CETSTALLOGRAPHT. Reticxdated
Book (edition)
This may : varyto oo ing from Fig. 208, of sulphur, shows a zone of such planes of the general symbol...are the same. forms are displayed in f. 208, of sulphur, already The f nil symbol of the plane 1-3 is referred...referred to * tions c : 1 : 3a, Sulphur. B. Hemihedral Forms. The hemihedral forms that have...with orthoclase asal plane. basa It has also with gypsum (f. 323). (f. 324); also been observed by the author...common method of twinning with this species. 327 Gypsum. Orthoclase. Orthoclase. In f. 332 the vertical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a-days, instead of going into these great gypsum quarries, Versailles troops. Recent experiments of...leaving the channel completely free. calcium, sulphur, phosphorus, stearin, and paraffin are quite Each
Book (volume)
Other collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT...COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co....countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered crystals sharply...and Centennial rd., the Medusa Quarry (SW of 4 quarries), very many specimens⎯fossils (some replaced by
Book (volume)
Other collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT...COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co....countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered crystals sharply...and Centennial rd., the Medusa Quarry (SW of 4 quarries), very many specimens⎯fossils (some replaced by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Recent Weathering Zone at the Abandoned Dingwall Gypsum Quarry, Nova Scotia, Canada 1, *, Damian Ługowski...Recent Weathering Zone at the Abandoned Dingwall Gypsum Quarry, Nova Scotia, Canada. Minerals 2022, 12...+48-508-749-742 (A.J.) Abstract: In the Dingwall gypsum quarry in Nova Scotia, Canada, operating in 1933–1955...have been uncovered from beneath the secondary gypsum beds of the extracted raw material. The anhydrite...hydration (gypsification), transforming into secondary gypsum due to contact with water of meteoric derivation
 
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