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Mimetite from
Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy


Locality type:Commune
Classification
Species:Mimetite
Formula:Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mimetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:7707
Long-form Identifier:1:3:7707:1
GUID (UUID V4):17b8eaef-b16c-4fb2-b2fb-82914d9e172d
Localities for Mimetite in this Region
Calagio quarries (Calagio Quarry; Olmo Quarry), Colonnata quarrying basin, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Fantiscritti, Miseglia quarrying basin (Miseglia-Fantiscritti quarrying basin; Fantiscritti quarrying basin), Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Carbonera Quarry (Carbonera B Quarry; Vennai Quarry; Carbonera-Vennai-Ciresuola quarries), Fantiscritti, Miseglia quarrying basin (Miseglia-Fantiscritti quarrying basin; Fantiscritti quarrying basin), Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Lucchetti Quarry (Strinato B Quarry; Strinato Quarry), Fantiscritti, Miseglia quarrying basin (Miseglia-Fantiscritti quarrying basin; Fantiscritti quarrying basin), Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Pattern: Lucchetti marble quarry, near Carrara, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy. (1T) 4.987 (100), 2.343 (88), 4...Avanza mine, near Pierabec, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. (9R) 4.886 (100), 2.338 (73), 1.798 (43), 4.550...(1) Lucchetti marble quarry, near Carrara, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy; average electron microprobe analysis...Avanza mine, near Pierabec, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy; electron microprobe analysis; corresponds to (Zn2+1...sphalerite and pyrite deposit (9R). Association: Mimetite, opal, an amorphous copper-silicate phase (1T);
Journal (issue)
.........259 b y U. Burchard Minerals of the Carrara M arble..........................................Louise, Horhausen, FRG San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy Kongsberg, Norway Friedrichssegen, Bad Ems, FRG...4 cm, on matrix, from San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy. Photo by Rainer Bode. 260 The M in eralogical...Maria 53, 56100 Pisa, Italy Giovanni Bracci Via dei Mulinacci, 8 57100 Livorno, Italy Domenico Dalena Viale...41 57100 Livorno, Italy F W twothousand years, the marble quarries near Carrara have yielded superb
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Scienze della Terra, Via S. Maria 53, I-56126 Pisa, Italy ABSTRACT Zincalstibite, a new mineral occurring...the cavities of marble of the Apuan Alps, Tuscany, – Italy, has chemical formula Zn2AlSb(OH)12, space...with sub-millimeter tufts of white crystals of mimetite and sub-millimetric stalactite aggregates of opal...the Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy. The Apuan Alps are a mountain chain in northern Tuscany running parallel...Avoltri) and Comeglians, Udine province, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy (Ciriotti et al. 2006). The results
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mines near Pinarcik in the Ilbir Mountains, MÅ­gla Province, Turkey .............................. 541 by...& M. Countiss Sphalerite and wurtzite from the Carrara Marble ................................. 571 by...DIASPORE twin, 1.3 cm, from near Pinarcik, MÅ­gla Province, Turkey. See the article beginning on page 541...com ItalianMinerals.com Quality Minerals from Italy & Worldwide www.ItalianMinerals.com e-mail: italianminerals@libero... was born Gabriella Katherine Loewi in Venice, Italy, on April 23, 1920, the daughter of Jewish art dealers
Journal (issue)
COVER (January-February issue): WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County...conichalcite, duftite, hemimorphite, malachite, mawbyite, mimetite, rosasite, segnitite and smithsonite. The Copper...Europe to adopt a son, but while at an orphanage in Italy, a 7-year-old girl (Bernadine) tugged at Antoinette’s...brochantite, chrysocolla, hemimorphite, linarite and mimetite. The Dewey mine is located on the ridge about...Furthermore, the secondary arsenate minerals such as mimetite, scorodite, adamite and austinite must have formed
Journal (issue)
photo. )I( .... ·�-·-·-· .._ WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County...conichalcite, duftite, hemimorphite, malachite, mawbyite, mimetite, rosasite, segnitite and smithsonite. The Copper...Europe to adopt a son, but while at an orphanage in Italy, a 7-year-old girl (Bernadine) tugged at Antoinette's...brochantite, chrysocolla, hemimorphite, linarite and mimetite. The Dewey mine is located on the ridge about...Furthermore, the sec­ ondary arsenate minerals such as mimetite, scorodite, adamite and austinite must have formed
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PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FEDERICO PEZZOTTA CURATOR OF MINERALOGY...JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 2011 PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY Participating Collectors: Marco Amabili Silvia...Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto collection Jeff Scovil photo... MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY )In OutCine of MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY Federico Pezzotta Mineralogy...literature and music, scholars and aristocrats in Italy assembled some of the first great collections of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quarry, Colonnata valley, Carrara basin, Apuan Alps, northern Tuscany, Italy. Occurrence: In calcite vein...vein cavities within the famous Carrara marble. Associated minerals are: azurite and volborthite. It...Ge contents of 1.3 wt.% have been found in the Carrara area. General appearance: Prismatic to tabular...member of the ettringite group. Name: After the Carrara region. Comments: IMA No. 1998–002. Because of...Carraraite and zaccagnaite, two new minerals from the Carrara marble quarries: their chemical compositions, physical
Book
[the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by F. Olmi, C. Sabelli & G. Brizzi) 19:305-310...ALBERTINI, CLAUDIO Famous mineral localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario:...8:287-293 Minerals of the Alpine rodingites of Italy (by C. M. Gramaccioli) 10:85-89 Micromounting in...Arcu su Linnarbu, Capoterra, Cagliari, Sardinia [Italy] (by R. Vochten & G. Brizzi) 18:181-184 AREM, JOEL...Minerals from the upper Arno River Valley, Tuscany, Italy (by M. Corazza, G. Pratesi & R. Braga) 25:293-299
Journal (issue)
rapher’s Guide, Library Guide $8 v.1 8 /# 4 Carrara Marble (Italy), Marburg Museum (Germany) v.1 8 /# 5 ...Mezica deposits occur in the Alpine Metallogenic Province, along several horizons in Triassic carbonate...were raised: some o f the finest pyromorphite and mimetite specimens in the world were included in material...all of the mines produced some pyromorphite or mimetite, only those yielding good or unusual specimen...interesting and characteristic py­ romorphite-mimetite as well as a suite of unusual rarities. It exploits
Journal (issue)
Siderite, Vonsenite GROUNDWORK On the Mineral Trail: Italy Back Issues You can order back issues of Treasures...1 s i ■s i •sc a c/i JD. CD a Printed in Italy TREASURES OF THE EARTH is published by Orbis Publishing...following countries: Australia; Germany; Greenland; Italy; Mexico; Namibia; Norway; Scotland; Switzerland;...strontianite on a base (matrix) of marble (Carrara, Italy). ST MINERALS ORIGINS < cc LU r- ■ ...Freiberg and NordrheinWestfalen (Germany); Varese (Italy); Strontian, Argyll (Scotland); the Strontium Hills
Book
(Federal Republic of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland...Hureaulite Strengite Galena (ps. after Pyromorphite) Mimetite (var. Campylite) Hedenbergite Olivine Andradite...Saxony, GDR llfeld, Harz, GDR Rio Marina, Elba, Italy Schneeberg, Saxony, GD R Wolfsberg, Harz, GDR Freiberg...Romania Grube Georg, Horhausen, FRG Brosso, Piemonte, Italy Piz Aul, Wallis, Switzerland 1 Room 1 0a 2 3 5...5 6 Tsumeb, Namibia Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Rheinbreitbach, Bonn, FRG Wurlitz, Fichtelgebirge, FRG Niedermendig
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Phosphate, Arsenate, Vanadate Apatite, lazulite, mimetite, phosphorite, pyromorphite, turquoise, vanadinite...(cubic system). Occurs in Germany, Italy, Brazil. (Specimen from Italy). 5 Adularia a colourless variety...below). Found in the Eifel (Germany), Bohemia, Italy, France. Figs. 14 and 15 are from Bohemia. 16 Diallage...parts of the world, e.g. London Clay, Austria, Italy, Spain, Sweden, USA. Fig. 22 from Elba, Fig. 23...Found in Derbyshire, Weardale, Bavaria, Tyrol, Italy, Spain, USSR, USA. Fig. 38 shows barytes covered
Journal (issue)
clear up the locality confusion. Cornelio Saavedra province (politically equivalent to a U.S. "county"), Potosf...Canutillos, Machacamarca district, Cornelio Saavedra province, Potosf department, Bolivia". The locality is...chalcotrichite from Daye Mining District (Hubei Province, China) before, but it was quite abundant with...cmmatrixfromDayeMiningDistrict(Hube1 " ,, . . Province,China).FabreMineralsspecimen. usual abundance...Jinlong, Guangdong Province. There were several new lots of ambercolored mimetite crystals to 7 mm from
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me: GEM CHEMISTRY VOLCANIC ISLANDS OF SOUTHERN ITALY LEAD MINERALS Unfortunately the Gem Chemistry and...chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and pyrite in Yahn Kasy province. This was probably the most exciting discovery...through Italy. Alan started ·us at Carrara, where marble has been quarried since Roman times. Carrara marble...strict than they are in the UK. Geologically, the Carrara marble is a very finely recrystallised limestone...as decorative stone and used in buildings. From Carrara, Alan's journey took us to Florence, long famous
Journal (issue)
Stibnite from the Wuling antimony mine, Jianxi province, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...mine at the southern end of the Seridó pegmatitic province (adapted from Sinkankas, 1981). Figure 2. Location...situated within a large, well-known pegmatite province containing hundreds of pegmatite bodies that have...Serido Group, is part of the Borborema geologic province (Almeida et al., 1981). The dikes are thought...International Mineralogical Association, Pisa, Italy, 1–13. ALMEIDA, F. F. M., HASUI, Y., BRITO NEVES
Book
Guastoni; Roberto Appiani. Originally published: Italy : Mondadori, 2003. [256] p. : col. photos. ; cm...Susa Valley, Piedmont, Italy Pages 8-9: Beryl from the Codera Valley, Lombardy, Italy Pages 42-43: Silver...Mount Bregaceto, Liguria, Italy Pages 104-105: Azurite crystals from Sardinia, Italy Pages 118-119: Boracite...tals with mimetite from Mexico Pages 160-161: Elbaite crystals from the island of Elba, Italy Pages 244-245:...crystals on quartz from Brusson, Valle d'Aosta, Italy NOTE TO THE READER The 288 mineralogical species
Journal (issue)
plumbogummite associated with yellow needles of mimetite. Molybdenite from the Carrock Mine tips and the...comprised orange botryoidal mimetite crusts along with micro crystals of mimetite and wulfenite. He also had...from the La Facciata Quarry in the Carrara Basin in Tuscany, Italy. These crystals are famous for being...type location of Mount Vesuvius near Naples, Italy. This specimen had dark crystals of vesuvianite...veszelyite from the Laochang Mine, Gejiu County, Yunnan Province, China. These small specimens showed patches of
Journal (issue)
COVER: CINNABAR with dolomite and quartz, Guizhou Province, China. The cinnabar crystals measure up to 1...stereocameras, stereophotography became largely the province of amateur photographers. During the middle of...calcite with malachite and kolwezite, from Shaba Province. Other Minerals The Millers also have a case devoted...veins with cerussite (Hill, 1916; Schrader, 1931). Mimetite P b 5(A s0 4)3Cl A single sample of oxidized ore...several small, subhedral crystals of pale orange mimetite. Pyromorphite P b 5( P 0 4)3Cl Rare pyromorphite
Journal (issue)
C. S. Stolburg Minerals of the Pereta mine, Tuscany, Italy .............................................Tazzini Alteration minerals of the Cetine mine, Tuscany, It a ly ..................................27 by.................................... 2 Notes from Italy by G. Porcellini .................................36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 Italy: Renato Pagano Via S. Anna 1/B I-34074 Monfalcone...Leadhillite Limonite Linarite Malachite Melanterite Mimetite Minium Plumbojarosite Covellite Pseudomalachite
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2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...Administered Tribal Areas and North West Frontier Province. Ilmenite crystal clusters to 12 cm across have...Mountain, Warsak district, North West Frontier Province. Surface diggings worked by local people on Zagi...per'>onalcommunication, 2007). 4 ITALY Rio Marina area, Island of Elba, Tuscany. Elba (Latin: llva) is the...and Lanzi mines, Campiglia Marittima, Livorno, Tuscany. Beginning in Etruscan times, the Temperino and
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Williams Minerals of the Alpine Rodingites of Italy ............................ 85 By C. M. Gramaccioli...serpentine rock of the Eastern Townships of Quebec Province. Canadian Mineralogist, 6, 307-319. OSBERG, P...Carlo M. Gramaccioli via Porpora 125 1-20131 Milan, Italy ince the early years of mineralogy, the beautiful...valley, approximately 50 km northwest of Torino, Italy, is accessible by a comfortable highway which passes...The Mineralogical Record, March— April, 1979 ef Italy dradite variety topazolite from Roch Neir; apatite
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their own right, like the Medici of Renais­ sance Italy, they know that an artist brings something special...Bancroft Collection. D ave’s incredible Tsumeb mimetite, still a standard for the species, from his Lincoln...give us all a look at his treasures. ♦ 16 ♦ Mimetite tsu « e b . south w f . Gold, California 19...Metatorbemite, France 72 Mimetite, Namibia 73 Novacekite, Brazil 74 Brazilianite, Brazil 74 Mimetite, England 75 ... o r g a n it e beryl on feldspar from Yunan Province, China; 6.5 inches. ♦ 51 ♦ A q u a m a r in
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crystals set in an asbestos base from Sondrio in Italy. Actinolite has high mechanical sensitivity - this...(matrix) from Balzano, Italy. Below: Note the blackness of these crystals from Novara, Italy. ~ Actinolite forms...British Columbia (Canada), in the Alpine regions of Italy, in New Zealand, in Siberia (Russia) and in Alaska...occurring in Switzerland, Austria and northern Italy. Albite is a mineral that is common and widespread...Switzerland, the Austrian Tyrol and right across northern Italy in the Val D'Aosta, around Lake Maggiore, and in
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The replacement of a natural carbonate rock (Carrara marble) by apatite was used as a model to study...porosity of the apatite by Pedrosa et al. (2016). Carrara marble was reacted with di-ammonium phosphate solutions...a considerably finer scale. Using the original Carrara marble (calcite 99.7%) density calculated as pure...Back-scattered electron (BSE) images of cross-sections of Carrara marble cubes reacted for 4 days at 200 C, using...not permitting for fluid reequilibration. In the Carrara marble tests it is conceivable that the higher
 
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