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Gypsum from
Enna, Enna Province, Sicily, Italy


Locality type:Commune
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Celestine1 photo of Gypsum associated with Celestine at this locality.
Sulphur1 photo of Gypsum associated with Sulphur at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Enna, Enna Province, Sicily, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:922020
Long-form Identifier:1:3:922020:1
GUID (UUID V4):b729e6c5-381f-4950-b9ae-accfb50dd2d6
Localities for Gypsum in this Region
Giumentaro Mine, Capodarso, Enna, Enna Province, Sicily, Italy
Floristella Mine, Enna, Enna Province, Sicily, Italy
Pasquasìa Mine, Enna, Enna Province, Sicily, Italy
Pergusa Lake area, Enna, Enna Province, Sicily, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (chapter)
between fault segments in the eastern Southern Alps, Italy D. ZAMPIERI1,2 & M. MASSIRONI1 1 Dipartimento di...Università di Padova, Via Giotto 1, 35137 Padova, Italy (e-mail: dario.zampieri@unipd.it) 2 CNR, Istituto...Garibaldi 37, 35137 Padova, Italy Abstract: In the eastern Southern Alps (NE Italy), Liassic north– south...carbonates) m.Triassic ~100 m Raibl Group (claystones-gypsum) Volcanics Fig. 2. Schematic column of the stratigraphy...Gam ond P a s N 1 3 lt u fa 2 Mt. Novegno Enna fault n=2 N 4 - PASSO PIANELLA N 3 km 3 2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
.......................... 410 411 Geologyof Sicily sulfur deposits............................................................. Isotopic studieson Sicily sulfur specimens................................. Sulfur in Sicily occursin a Iagoonalevaporiticsequenceof formations, known as the Gypsum-Sulfurseries...above the Sulfur limestoneare the sulfur-barren Gypsum Beds formation and the Globigerina marl. The •S...today,sulfuris oneof the chiefmineralproducts of Italy although the deposits of the Gulf Coast of the United
Catalog/List
2-blt"xl" thick. £5.50. BOTRYOGEN. Gambatesa, Liguria, Italy. Lustrous, orangey brown, cellular mnss of smoll...5x4"x3t". £7.75. CELESTITE. Floristella Mine, Enna, Sicily. A magnificent group of very large,. sh:up,... £2.75. 52. ILV ITE. Rio Marina, Isle of Elba, Italy. Lustrous, blackish, divergent bladed crystaline...£1. 25. 58. MAGNETITE. Traversella, Piedmont l Italy. Very large, sharp, black, modified crystals to...2xl{-". £1.25. PYRITES. Niccioleta Mine, Tuscany, Italy. Fine, large, bright, metallic, sharp cubic crystals
Catalog/List
00 CR-118 GYPSUM(Sand Roses) Luderitz, Namib Desert Light gray to brown gronular gypsum blades intergrow...00 CR-118 GYPSUM(Sand Uoscs) Luderitz, Namib Desert Light gray to bro~m granular gypsum blades intergrow...Coal inclusions Teruel, Spain A single unattnched gypsum crystal showing all side faces but no terminations...(9) Al-73 SULPHUR Thuoristella Mine, Agriyento, Sicily, ltaly The top face of this piece is 70~ covered...Al-74 SULPHUR ANDCOALTAR Cozzodisi Mine, Enna, Sicily, Italy Approx. 15 nicely formed orthorhombic sulphur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
× 8 × 5 cm, Giumentaro mine, Capodarso, Enna, Sicily, Italy. internal characteristics (phantoms and...5 × 1.3 cm, Monteponi mine, Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy. light. The reaction was strong enough to glow...Africa. Reproduced with permission Figure 12. Gypsum (var. selenite), 12.5 × 12.2 × 12 cm, Red River
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonates Messinian Sicily a b s t r a c t The Messinian sequence of evaporitic deposits in Italy includes authigenic...limestone (Calcare Solfifero) from two locations in Sicily and bedded lime13 stone from the northern Apennines...pres18 ence of calcite pseudomorphs after lenticular gypsum, (2) O-enrichment in carbonates, and (3) the biomarkers...and Evans, 1976), and the ‘Calcare Solfifero’ in Sicily (−52‰; Dessau et al., 1962; Decima et al., 1988;...(Calcare Solfifero) are associated with abundant gypsum, which precipitated in the course of one of the
Report (chapter)
field geologist, travelling throughout Europe from Sicily to Scandinavia. He made repeated geological tours...the Canary Islands and in 1857 and 1858 revisited Sicily to spend arduous weeks studying Mount Etna. In...Belgium, up the Rhine Valley and across the Alps into Italy as far as Rome. While on vacation at Bartley Lodge...volcanoes of Vesuvius and Etna in southern Italy and Sicily. On Mont Dore in Auvergne he had seen freshwater...around modern volcanoes. Murchison told him that Sicily would answer many questions that their work among
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Western Greek Amphorae Production in Western Sicily: Archaeometric and Archaeological Studies on 6th–5th...University of Palermo, Via Archirafi, 22-90123 Palermo, Italy; giuseppe.montana@unipa.it Dipartimento di Biologia...P. Bucci, Cubo 12B, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Universität...Dorian-Chalcidian colony of Himera in northwestern Sicily. Among the most striking issues is the determination...frame of regional economic interaction. Keywords: Sicily; Himera; western Greek amphorae; local production;
Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by |GDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...greenockite 11 greenovite 81 grossularite 78 gummite 36 gypsum 62 halides 20 halite 20 halotrichite 60 hambergite...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States it is...Filiform silver: Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) endritic copper rmation. Houghton fichigan) ...covered with calcite. Casteltermini, Agrigento (Italy) look more different. Theirs is the most notable
Book
with Orbis Publishing Limited abcdefgh Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara Adapted from the original Italian...greenockite I1 greenovite 81 grossularite 78 gummite 36 gypsum 62 halides 20 halite 20 halotrichite 60 hambergite...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States it...Filiform silver. Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) Dendritic copper famous (Michigan) 1822. It...covered with calcite. Casteltermini, Agrigento (Italy) and diopsids. Other famous mines are Dutoitspan
Catalog/List
tufts ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE: Mount Bianco, Italy. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE:...and tufts ACTINOLITE SMARAGDITE:Micciano, Pisa, Italy. massive, green 2 variety ADAMITE: Ojuela Mine,...slender crystals in matrix AFGHANITE:Pitigliano, Italy. minute crystals AFWILLITE: Crestffiore Quarry,...Hil3ir0. /-,S l\BOVE Brazil., /1ntrim, Tuscany. Italy. Sp~in. crystals Thomaston Dam, Connacticut, Selva...ANATASE: Farm, APRIL, Copper Falls, Michigan, Italy. crystals Quarry, S3ndung;;rn, /\sker, AS ABOVE
Book
Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...greenockite 11 greenovite 81 grossularite 78 gummite 36 gypsum 62 halides 20 halite 20 halotrichite 60 hambergite...(Yugoslavia), son1e n1ines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almaden (Spain). In the United States it is...11 silver. Nico la Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia ( Italy) ?ndri1ic copper ,·,nation. Houghton fichigan)...covered with calcite. Casteltern1ini, Agrigento ( Italy) look more different. Theirs is the most notable
Catalog/List
25, 3x4-$3.00, $2.00/lb. ✓AUGITE - Mt. Etna, Sicily, sharp black single X. & small groups - about ...3x4-$1. 50,$2. 00, $2. 00/lb. CELESTITE - Enna Mines, Sicily - fine groups of well formed X. , many fluor­...2x2-35C, 2x3-SOc, 3x3-75C, 3x4-$1.00, 60C/lb. GYPSUM - Sicily - pure transparent cleavages, some fluor­ esce...Sx3-50C, 75c, 2x4-$1.00, 2x6-$1.SO, $1. 00/lb. GYPSUM - Nova Scotia - pure white to light tan "satin...00, 3x4-$1.50, 75c/1b. LEUCITE - Roccamonfina, Italy - well­ formed trapezohedral single X. & groups
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with a brilliant luster. Associated minerals are gypsum, hewettite (or metahewettite), carnotite and various...the LaSal Mountains, Grand County, Utah, and in Gypsum Valley, San Miguel County, Colorado. The writer...Fertesous-Jouarre. Buhrstone is sometimes written burrstone. ITALY—A group of splendid, whitish celestite xls on grayish...celestite xls. "Celestite. Floristella Mine, Enna, Italy."—on label. LIBERIA — L. O. Mac Murdy, c/o American
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
distinctly attacked by ordinary boiling water. Gypsum in the water renders it harmless, but chlo­ rides...electricity or other motive power. countries for 1895 is: Italy, 551,250,000 g"allons; Spain, 385.875,000; Austria...amountf'd to 14,000,000, High Tension Illumination.-The enna Elektrotechnischen Verein contains notes of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
some of the marginal seas and lagoons. Massive gypsum and halite deposition took place in the deep western...salt deposits of the deep Mediterranen basins. Gypsum deposits associated with shallow Paratethyan caspi-brackish...deposition are missing. The chemical composition of both gypsum and fossil shells indicate significant meteoric...Evaporites in the Mediterranean area (!!if/;3 aaItand gypsum . . . - pre-crlsls passages • Messinian drilling...Fauna of Arenazzolo Formation at Eraclea Minoa in Sicily, and Cuevas del Almanzora in Spain cited as evidence
Journal (issue)
example in the dolomitic marble of Crevola d'Ossola, Italy; Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little...13-5:6-9; California 13-6:2.4; Kentucky 13-7: 1,6-8; Italy 13-10: 10; Montana 13-10:5: Texas 13-10: 1.4; Kentucky...D-7:2.9. 10 Cornubite Montana 13-7:2.9.10 Corundum Italy 13-6:7.9 Covellite Washington 13-5:5 Crandallite...Cuprobismutitc Connecticut 13-3: 1.-1.5 Derbylite Italy 13-10: 10 Descloizite Mexico 13-5: 1.2.9; Namibia...Arizona 13-5: 1.2.9: New Mexico 13-9:5 l2 Dessauite Italy 13-10:10 Devilline(?) Washington 13-5:5 Dewindtite
Journal (issue)
Lhuyd and Alban Thomas near Raddusa, Catania, Sicily, Italy...............................................connecting Brig, Switzerland with Domodossola, Italy. Cutting through the Alps beneath the Simplon Pass...railway between the Romandy region of Switzerland and Italy, 479 Figure 1. Topographic map showing the path...Switzerland, northwest of the Simplon Alp to Iselle, Italy, at the southeast end, and the larger city of Domodossola...Jura-Simplon). A treaty between Switzerland and Italy was signed in 1895 to 480 The Mineralogical Record
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Istituto di Geologia, Universit& di Firenze, Florence (Italy) 2 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Centro Studi...Studi per la Geologia dell'Appennino, Florence (Italy) (Received August 21, 1969) SUMMARY According to...rather than in the Central-Southern Apennines and Sicily. At the northern junction, Alps and Apennines are...the older sequences. For instance, the Messinian gypsum at the top of late geosynclinal deposits of the...tinconformably overlain by lacustrine conglomerates and gypsum of Messinian age. In southwestern Tuscany these
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
153 ~ E (BURNS, ANnJm Tepp14reHuoro npo14cxo>Kr~enna; coIIep~KaH11eKap60- DREWS et al., 1973). At both...core to core. Cores from the same topographic province, however, have very similar lithologies, whereas...a mixed-layer mineral, aragonite, dolomite, and gypsum. These in most cases form percentages of less than...chlorite, and kaolinite, a ,,chlorite province,,, and a ,,kaolinite province,, can be distinguished. These provinces... .q PROVINEE~- Turbidity-----currentsPumice PROVINCE,~] ~ rafts O,UEENSLAND PLATEAU AUSTRALIA Fig
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...160-161: Elbaite crystals from the island of Elba, Italy Pages 244-245: Whewellite crystals from the Czech...crystals on quartz from Brusson, Valle d'Aosta, Italy NOTE TO THE READER The 288 mineralogical species
Book
Guastoni; Roberto Appiani. Originally published: Italy: Mondadori, 2003. (256} p. : col. phptos. ; cm....Valley, Piedmont, Italy Pages 8- 9: 13eryl 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...160-161: Elbaite crystals from the island of Elba, Italy Pages 244-245: Whewellite crystals from the Czech...crystals on quartz from Brusson, Valle d'Aosta, Italy NOTE TOTHE READER The 288 mineralogical species
Journal (issue)
large cry lals of the wonderful aragonite from Enna, Sicily, that glows white under shortwave UV and phosphoresces...ideally three of each) from Anahi Mine, A. Sandoval Province, Santa Cruz Do., Bolivia. On my third day, Wednesday... Jeffrey Mining County had ram's horn selenite gypsum cry tals with green nuorescence presumably due...phosphoresced a more green color afterwards, resembling gypsum in this regard. Austinite from Gold Hill Mine,...blue. One dealer had some specimens from Kunar Province, Afghanistan. One was a chunk off a large tourmaline
Book (volume)
work. Auvergne, Velay, afterwards the districts Italy, Cantal, and the environs of Aix, in We visited...other localities the Subapennine beds of northern Italy; and, on the other hand, that the characteristic...re-crossed the Alps, while my course to the south of Italy, first I staying PREFACE. Parma, where at...result in regard to the southern extremity of Italy, from that to which Signors Guidotti and Bonelli...abandoned my design of ex- ploring the western part of Sicily, that I might return again to the Val di Noto
Report (volume)
A N N A N T E Universita Federico II di Napoli, Italy 2006 Published by The Geological Society London...Early Miocene of the Sarcidano area (Sardinia, Italy) 35 KERSHAW, S. & GUO, L. Pleistocene calcified...of Naples and Pozzuoli (northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) 85 MASSARI, F. & CHIOCCI, F. Biocalcarenite and...microtidal, Mediterranean Quaternary settings of Sicily REUTER, M., BRACHERT, T.C. & KROEGER, K.F. Shallow-marine...shelves: a case study from the Cilento area, southern Italy 179 HALFAR, J., STRASSER, M., RIEGL, B. t~ GODINEZ-ORTA
 
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