Ferdinando Giovine's Photo Gallery

Società Boracifera di Larderello

Larderello, Pomarance, Pisa Province, Tuscany, Italy

Financial statement for 1934 of Società Boracifera di Larderello joint-stock company who worked on the extraction of borax in the first half of the 20th century
Graphic elaboration by Pasquale Fiumanò
Private collection

CVL-WTDSpodumene LiAlSi₂O₆

Kunar, Afghanistan

Dimensions: 4.4 cm

Green spodumene (var. hiddenite?) totally gemmy with evident swallow-tail twinned visible in second pic too ( (110) contact plane José Zendrera pers. com.)
It is very rare to find twins of spodumene and very few specimens are known in the world and all from this area
Obtained from the minerals saler Gemstone and Minerals
In Ferdinando Giovine twinned minerals

HCU-GVTCopper Cu

Rocklands Group Copper Project, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia

Dimensions: 3.0 cm

A floater octaedric crystals twinned on (111) spinel law from a recent (2019) find.
In isometric native minerals (Cu, Au, Ag, etc) is non common so see so evident octaedric rwins with faces well exposed. Other not misurate faces are present, but probable icosahedron
Acquired from spiriferminerals
In my twinned minerals collection

U3A-6MLMagnesio-foitite ◻(Mg₂Al)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH) , Quartz SiO₂

Pingwu beryl mine, Huya township, Mount Little Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang, Sichuan, China

Dimensions: 6.4 cm

Magnesio-foitite crystals incluse in 6,4 cm quartz crystal
This is the sample Mindat ID Y8J-D92 acquired in 2010 from chinesefineminerals see other pics
and now in my quartzs collection

QT5-VYWSulphur S₈

Solfatara di Pozzuoli, Pozzuoli, Naples, Campania, Italy

Dimensions: 20 cm

skeletal crystals of sulfur near a fumarole (in situ)
original in video of Televomero Napoli

Thermal thòlos and stufe in engraving of Houel (1778)

Terme di San Calogero, Pianoconte, Lipari Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands, Metropolitan City of Messina, Sicily, Italy

Engraving of Houel (1778) of the thermal thòlos and stufe. Image taken from Bernabò Brea, L. and Cavalier, M. (1991) Isole Eolie: vulcanologia, archeologia. Oreste Ragusi Editore, Muggiò (Milano), 192 pp.

Lipari obsidian

Lipari Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands, Metropolitan City of Messina, Sicily, Italy

from italian wikipedia
Obsidian in situ at an unknow locality in Lipari Island

0E5-3LYCassiterite SnO₂

Piaotang Mine, Xihuashan ore field, Dayu Co., Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China

Largest Crystal Size: 40 mm

Fourlings twins for repeated of 4 crystals
Twinned minerals collection of Ferdinando Giovine
Ex Dragons Minerals

Etna eruption 1892

Mount Etna, Etna Volcanic Complex, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy

Etna eruption 1892 in old postcard

X2Q-2REHeulandite Subgroup (Na/Ca/K)_5-6[Al_8-9 Si_27-28 O₇₂]· nH₂O

Prünst Quarry, Prünst, Patersdorf, Regen District, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

Largest Crystal Size: 2 mm

Heulandite crystals
Wroblen Florian collected in 2003
Zeolites collection of Ferdinando Giovine