Quartz
Scaloni quarries, Fantiscritti, Miseglia quarrying basin, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Historical specimen of quartz, collected at Scaloni in 1889, belonging to the collection of minerals from the Carrara marble, assembled by the geologist Domenico Zaccagna (Carrara, 1851 - Rome, 1940), which was partly purchased in 1902 by Giovanni D'Achiardi for the former Mineralogical Museum at Pisa University. This unusually large crystal, ...