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Andesine from
Gneiss quarries, Riveo, Maggia, Vallemaggia, Ticino, Switzerland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Albite var: Andesine
Formula:(Na,Ca)[Al(Si,Al)Si2O8]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Andesine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gneiss quarries, Riveo, Maggia, Vallemaggia, Ticino, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:83940
Long-form Identifier:1:3:83940:2
GUID (UUID V4):7e8dfb24-c705-447e-87de-a8cfda6aef27
Nearest other occurrences of Andesine
18.0km (11.2 miles) Lago Nero, Robièi (Alpe di Robièi; Lake Robièi area), Bavona Valley, Cevio, Vallemaggia, Ticino, Switzerland
44.1km (27.4 miles) Monte Eyehorn pegmatites (Monte Ehie Horn pegmatites), Valstrona, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
46.9km (29.2 miles) Antronapiana, Antrona Schieranco, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
64.4km (40.0 miles) Croso della Gavala plumasite outcrop, Vocca, Vercelli Province, Piedmont, Italy
References
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Report (volume)
mineral content, and origin___________________ Gneiss and granite___ _ ______ ________ 7 9 9 9 ' 11..._________________________ 43 Geologic observations at the quarries, by T. Nelson Dale_______ 45 Microstructure____________________...Inclusions _________________________________ 47 Plicated gneiss structure_________________________ 47 Granite ...discussion Continued. Geologic observations at the quarries Continued, Page. Segregations__l_.____ '.____...Nelson Dale_______________ Description of the quarries and their product__________ ____ Method______
Report (volume)
examples_________________ Fluidal cavities in granite gneiss.________ Fluidal cavities in small dikes or veins_____...England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product__________ Method of tr...The granite railroads_______________________ The quarries, their granite and finished product_______ Caledonia...________ Geology of Byegate quarries__________ Quarries ________________________ Groton____________________________...Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product Continued. Vermont Continued. Page. The quarries, their granite
Report (issue)
_ Hornblende gneiss unit _________________ _ Microcline-quartz-plagioclase-biotite gneiss unit ______...____ _ Microcline-quartz-plagioclase-biotitc · gneiss complexly interlayered with other rocks ______...-----lnterlayered biotite-quartz- pia gioclase gneiss and mica schist ________________ _ Quartzite unit...__________________________ _ Quartz-feldspar cata.clastic gneiss and associated rocks ______________________ _ Cataclastic..._________ _ 8, 9. Garnetiferous biotite-quartz gneiss, Schwartzwalder mine __________________________________
Book
in 2002 in a calcite-carbonatite vein intruding gneiss, together with very large Baveno-law-twinned crystals...Alberene and Old Dominion quarries, Albemarle County. In these two soapstone quarries, tabular ilmenite crystals...9: 1 (Gaines, 1971; Pimentel er al., 2009). SWITZERLAND Maderanertal east of Arnsteg, Uri. In the world...hematite roses occur in numerous localities in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central...specimens reminiscent of those from Maderanertal, Switzerland, and remarkable for their bright luster, sharp
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02'34"}65)--Quartz-plagioclasemicrocline.bioti te gneiss. Acc>essory minerals: clinozoisi te, garnet, zircon... magnetite, muscovite, hornolende. 'Actinolite Gneiss >and Cpondrodite Limestone (76(locality uncertain}ltl)--westward...pyrite, Plrrhotite, ahd calcite in hornDlendle gneiss. Eaat of Center Pend, oa fara ot M.J. ~lder.an...p.150,195)--.erpentine mar'le found in a bed in gneiss on the river in Becket. Mattetite (75(see L.e)374...titan te i8 r.lative~1 large SJl.sunts. Grgit. Quarries (76(42 15'58",73000'43tt)~ 2 16'11",73 01'U tt
Book (volume)
..377 North Carolina – Spruce Pine – Little Switzerland Area Map .....................379 North Carolina.........................511 Virginia – Leesburg quarries Site Map .......................................gemmy minerals, petrified wood;  area limestone quarriesCalcite, Celestite, marble;  SIXMILE (hamlet...Magnetite, Pyrite, etc.;  limestone and dolomite quarriesBarite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of...5 mi., in Trenton limestone, in old Civil War quarriesGalena. (Loose pieces of galena are found over
Book (volume)
⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet...Magnetite, Pyrite, etc.; f limestone and dolomite quarries⎯Barite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of...5 mi., in Trenton limestone, in old Civil War quarries⎯Galena. (Loose pieces of galena are found over...worked by Indians.) PELL CITY, NE 3 mi., area quarries⎯black marble. (The marble belt extends through...and Tourmaline (Minerals in veins in schist and gneiss.); e S. of Pleasant Grove church on the Hobbs farm⎯Turquoise
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⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet...Magnetite, Pyrite, etc.; f limestone and dolomite quarries⎯Barite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of...5 mi., in Trenton limestone, in old Civil War quarries⎯Galena. (Loose pieces of galena are found over...worked by Indians.) PELL CITY, NE 3 mi., area quarries⎯black marble. (The marble belt extends through...and Tourmaline (Minerals in veins in schist and gneiss.); e S. of Pleasant Grove church on the Hobbs farm⎯Turquoise
Report (volume)
County, extensive quarries near Birmingham and Bessemer. Talladega County, several quarries. Clay (brick)...Gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Quarries at Tallassee Falls in Elmore County. Galena. Calhoun...St. Glair County, at Cooks Springs. Sandstone. Quarries: Calhoun County, at Anniston; Colbert County,...glance). Mohave County, in pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Chloride, Mineral Park, and Stockton Hill districts...pyrite). Mohave County, in pre-Oambrian granite gneiss in Chloride and Mineral Park districts; Minnesota-Connor
Report (volume)
County, extensive quarries near Birmingham and Bessemer; Talladega County, several quarries. Used for road...Gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Quarries at Tallassee Falls, in Elmore County. Galena....County, near Guntersville. Gas. See Natural gas. Gneiss. See Granite. Gold. In metamorphic rocks, Chilton...St. Glair County, at Cooks Springs. Sandstone. Quarries: Calhoun County, at Anniston; Colbert County,...Rover mine. Mohave County, in pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Chloride, Mineral Park, and Stockton Hill districts
Book
Igneous intrusives Dark minerals, Limestone quarries Calcite, celestite, dolomite, fluorite, galena...sericite, chlorite, muscovite, biotite varieties), gneiss, hornfels, marble, serpentine, breccias, silica...w, in the Trenton limestone, in old Civil War quarries opened by the Confederate government—ga/ena. Note:...averaging 1/2 mi. wide, with many at regional quarries— crystalline marble. Rockford, excavations—go/d...deposit— colemanite with howlite. Lomita, area quarries— crystals of dolomite, with pyrite, marcasite
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was that marble regenerated itself in certain quarries. Nevertheless he was suspicious of claims that...basalt was the main raw material, and basalt axe quarries were abundant (McCoy and Gould 1977). In eastern...Mayan structures appears to have come from local quarries. Most of the region of Mayan civilization is underlain...Quartzite Shale >> Slate >> Phyllite >> Schist >> Gneiss 3.5 Metamorphic Rocks 59 that is completely...Pharaonic Gebel el-Asr gneiss quarries of Egypt were the source of an anorthosite gneiss used in funerary vessels
Book (edition)
kingdom as carbon in the organic. Granite and gneiss are nearly three-fourths and the silica; rest...quartz compounds (aluminous silicates) make granite, gneiss, mica schist, syenite, and some sandstones, and...silica, albites contain a little potash, 1:1:3. Andesine is another lime-and-soda feldspar. Ratio of the...combinations of these forms, and commonly imbedded in gneiss, mica slate, and other crystalline rocks. Color...sedimentary beds have been altered into granite, gneiss, or mica schist, and compact limestone into statuary-marble
 
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