| | Catalog/List | mass in 3x2 Casagna Mine, Graveglia Valley Liguria Italy £ 10 L...~~--------1 --=2q_ PR.INCIVALLEITE...an~ schis~_ Curiglia, Varese Province, Lombardy Italy 1.5cm£10 --- ------ - ·=- - 30 CHRYSOCOLLA,...smaller area. Scerscen Glacier Sondrio province Italy . £20 • 34 TIRAGALLOITE sample B) about 8x8mm orange...hydrocerussite and calcite. Also Mn oxide matrix .Overall size about 1.3cm x 8mm Merehead quarry, Mendips £8...It's about 1mm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected it in 2019. £18 46 OPAL | | | Journal (issue) | Articles The Val Graveglia m anganese district, Liguria, I t a ly .......................................Donato, Italy macco.marchesini@agip.it Renato Pagano Casella Postale 37 1-20092 Cinisello, Italy renpagan@tin...Graveglia area, Genoa Province, Northern Italy. 1— Cassagna mine 2—Gambatesa mine 3— Molana quarry 4— Molinello...Coppello-Reppia prospect 9— Monte Porcile mine 10— Nascio 11—Scrava mine 12— Pontori Prospect h CD ^ .L...manganese district of Val Graveglia in northern Italy produced over one million tons of high-grade ore | | | Catalog/List | magnetite with minor black Ludwigite fibres. Old marble quarry Kilchist Skye 4x4 £7 29 GOETHITE quite rich...rich orange crust on 1.5cm x 8mm matrix Libiola Italy with copy ofNHM museum label £10 35 SKUTTERUDITE...colourless micro crystals lining protected vugh in calcite matrix, about 4x2 in 6x4 Middleshop mine Strontian...large and smaller radiations on slate High Down Quarry Devon 5x2.5 £10 4 53 TILASITE rich pinkish massive...on 2xl .5cm surface Molinello Mine Val Graveglia Italy £7 66 UINTAHITE glassy black solid hydrocarbon Fort | | | Catalog/List | mass in 3x2 Casagna Mine, Graveglia Valley Liguria Italy £10 2 2 -=- .__ 38 DOLOMITE mass of small...and schist Curiglia, Varese Province, Lombardy Italy 1.5cm £10 42 AMEL YGONITE white cleavage piece 4x2x2...Braunite 3.5x2.5 . Scerscen Glacier Sondrio province Italy . £20 (photo) 46 NATROJAROSITE yellow brown crystalline...matrix lx2cm matrix Varenche Mine Aosta Italy £10 65 CALCITE after IKAITE intergrown crystal sections...the base. Crevoladossola, Ossola Valley, Piedmont Italy £10 • ,~ • L .~ ( - _ _ 72 FORSTERITE pale | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Dr. Du Riche Preller—Ophiolithic Rocks, E. Liguria. 489 I I . — T H E OPHIOLITHIC GROUPS OF THE LIGUEIAN...and Monte Penna, about midway between Spezia and Genoa, viz. north of Levanto, Sestri Levante, and Chiavari...ophiolithic group of Sestri Ponente and Isoverde, west of Genoa, they lie in the upper horizon of that formation... 490 Dr. Du Riche Preller—Ophiolithic Rocks, E. Liguria. euphodite alternating with argillaceous schist...quarries of the beautiful and well-known " green marble of Levanto ", largely used for ornamental purposes | | | Catalog/List | the surface with interesting white platy flat calcite-- attractive piece 6x4. Whitesmith Mine Stontian...over the top surface 4x3cm Cassagna Mine, Ne Liguria Italy £ 25 14 STRONTIO-ORTHO JOAQU1N1TE one yellow...on lx2cm surface Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia Italy £8 18 NATIVE COPPER a cleaned piece 8x5cm Keweenaw...Piemontite and quartz Praboma Mine, St Marcel ,Aosta Italy 3.5 x3cm £12 25 RHODIZlTE glass tube 5xlcm with...34 PYRRHOTlTE pure metallic mass 4x3cm Shierglas Quarry Blair Atholl Scotland £6 37 AGRELLITE pure grey | | | Catalog/List | prefecture Japan 5.5 x2cm on 7x4.5 £50 1 9 CALCITE after IKAITE a piece with one principal crystal...It's about lm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected it in 2019. £18 14 BRUCITE...pale green plates on Monticellite 4x3cm Crestmore Quarry, Riverside county California USA £10 2 33 DOLOMITE...obvious brown masses in 3xl cm Faiallo pass, Genoa Italy £8 46 BARYTES, the classic oakstone. A cut and...obvious micro - ~ ~ - - ~- -~ black grains in calcite 2cm Kabutoichiba, Mie Prefecture Japan £ 18 61 | | | Book | CANADA MARBLE: THE HISTORY OE A CULTURE Luciana and Tiziano Mannoni This book is a history of marble in...sculpture, architecture and building techniques. How marble was extracted, and the working techniques are an...used. Past and possible future problems of the marble industry are examined, while the famous pro¬ duction...Jacket illustration: Trajan’s Column, Rome ••VV MARBLE the history of a culture Luciana and Tiziano...Origins of Marble Chapter Two Marble Technology Chapter Three The different Uses of Marble Chapter Four | | | Book (volume) | ITALIAN MOUNTAIN GEOLOGY ’ PARTS NORTHERN 1 AND [ITALY II AND TUSCANY BY C. S. DU RICHE PRELLER, M...el ITALIAN MOUNTAIN PaRts NORTHERN I anp ITALY GEOLOGY. II. AND TUSCANY. OTHER GEOLOGICAL...(The Moraine Walls and Lake Basins of Northern Italy. The Piedmontese Alps, Ligurian Apennines, Carrara...idem. The Ancient Sea and Lake Basins of Central Italy : idem. Italian Mountain Geology, Part II]. Wheldon...NORTHERN PART I. THE ‘PART II. THE Sslk) AND ITALY GEOLOGY. oll AND TUSCANY. PIEDMONTESE ALPS | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Findings: The San Francesco di Castelletto Church in Genoa Simona Scrivano * , Laura Gaggero and Elisa Volpe...Environment and Life Sciences—University of Genoa, 16132 Genoa, Italy; gaggero@dipteris.unige.it (L.G.); foxy25@hotmail...tested with remnants (i.e., several hundreds of marble fragments found during archaeological excavations)...monastic complex of San Francesco di Castelletto (Genoa), which was demolished after the Napoleonic suppressions...comparison with similar complexes still existing in Genoa allowed the inference of the age and specific ornamental | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Environment and Life Sciences, University of Genoa, 16132 Genoa, Italy; gaggero@dipteris.unige.it (L.G.); foxy25@hotmail... Abstract: Fifty-four pieces out of 356 marble pieces deriving from the decorative and architectonic...monastic complex of S. Francesco of Castelletto (Genoa, Italy) preserve traces of varicolored paint layers...that stone decoration in Genoa during the Middle Ages encompassed a calcite groundwork and the use of...characterization of the decorative techniques in use in Genoa during the Middle Ages. Keywords: polychromies; | | | Catalog/List | RI C:HARD BYw·AYS TAYLER ,~I 'NE R AL S 2 0 BURS T EAD CL OS E ·COBHAM S URRE Y E N GL AND K T 1 1...of Norway) lx2 90p 2x2 ll,80 2x4 t3.70 218 ALMAND!NE with 0~phacit2. 1 to 2 mmrer1 ~lmandine in Ed,:,gj_teroe:'...fi1icaeousscales on matrix a (St M~rcel, Val d'Aosta Italy) W 1J:1 7Cp 1x2 f 1. 30 2x2 :t3. 00 brc~n ~~ss...64 BOULANGERITE silvery grey mass on dolomitic marble. (International Hine1 Kaladar, Ontario,Canada)... 73 BRUCITE grey grains r.ichly distributed in Marble. | | Folk, Robert L., Tiezzi, Pamela A., Pursell, Victoria J., Graber, Ellen R., Greenberg, Joseph G., Miller, James (1993) Overturned geopetal structures formed by solution of sulfates, Triassic (Rhaetian) Portoro limestone, Portovenere area (la Spezia), Liguria, Italy. Carbonates and Evaporites, 8 (1) 39-49 doi:10.1007/bf03175161 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | PORTORO LIMESTONE, PORTOVENERE AREA (LA SPEZIA), LIGURIA, ITALY Robert L. Folk, Pamela A. Tiezzi', Victoria...isolated single crystals now pseudomorphed by calcite; (2) nodules encrusted with large pseudomorphs...golden-yellow (dolomite plus iron oxide) and white (calcite) veins. For many centuries it has been extensively...extensively quarried for use as ornamental black "marble" (marmo nero) in wall paneling, table tops, altars...peninsula at Portovenere, SW of La Spezia, Liguria, NW Italy, or on its prolongation offshore as the islands | | | Report (chapter) | buildings in the historical centre of Turin (NW Italy): architectonical survey and petrographic characterization...Torino, Italy 2 Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino, Via Giolitti, 36-I-10123 Torino, Italy 3...Georisorse, Via Valperga Caluso, 35-I-10125 Torino, Italy *Corresponding author (e-mail: alessandro.borghi@unito...Abstract: One of the peculiarities of Turin (NW Italy) lies on the presence of monumental arcades which...the corresponding geological units and original quarry sites. The minero-petrographic study is accompanied | | | Book | District, Erongo Region, Namibia. Photo: John Hall CALCITE, 15mm crystal group - Ramsbeck, Meschede, Sauerland...being photographed and this was one of them. 8 Calcite "straw" - Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope, Weardale, Co...most intriguing formation of tabular hexagonal Calcite crystals stacked end on end which appear to have...colour too. 9 Jeanbandyite/Natanite - Hingston Down Quarry, Calstock, Cornwall. Field of view approx. 3mm...Mineralogical Record Vol.18, #1, p86, fig.1 12 Calcite- Moonen Bay, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire | | | Catalog/List | matrix. 5x5x2.5cm Molinello Mine, Vai Graveglia, Italy £35 2 AWARUITE about 10 individual 2 to 3mm long...small white crystals in Basalt 5x6 cm Limberg No 1 quarry, Kaisersthul, Germany £4 11 LAVOISIERITE rich...brown fibrous about 3x2cm Punta Gensane, Viu Turin Italy 13 SENARMONITE single sharp grey octahedral crystal...fibrous mass . Praboma mine, St Marcel |, Piedmont Italy 5x2.5 £12 Sample b) .5x1.5 £ 36 ARAGONITE 3 to 4mm...orange-brown platy area about 8mm . Varenche Mine, Aosta Italy £8 51 PHARMA COSIDERITE very micro cubic crystals | | | Book (edition) | the La Fossa crater, Vulcano Is., Lipari Islands, Italy. Anthropogenic on burning coal dumps of the Anna...Northampton co., Pennsylvania, and from the Kobokobo quarry, near Kamituga, Dern. Rep. of Congo. EJM 23, 269-277...crater, Vulcano Is., Lipari Islands, Italy. < 3. D(calc.) = 3.81. Ne,o = 1.710, 1.777, (+). From Lavrion...the La Fossa crater, Vulcano Is., Lipari Islands, Italy. AM 95, 382-385, 2010. Akaogiite TiO2 (4.D), an... Pale blue under SW UV light. ln a microcline-calcite vein with aegirine, baratovite, etc. in the Dara-i-Pioz | | | Catalog/List | 1111111 R I CHARD T AYLE R MI NE RAL S BYWAYS 2 0 BURS TE AD CL OS E COBHAM S URRE Y P h o n e Co b...Mica). Bobierite. Brugnatellite and Humite from Italy. Unusual green opal variety Hyalite. From India...yellow trown mass from this clussi2 illine (Franklin Ne~Jersey U.S.A) lxl fl. 20 lx2 f2.20 022 JIJ,JGLESIT~... grey-green somewith Serpentine. (CountyBridge Quarry, Lizard) lxl 90p lx2 fl.50 2x2 f3.00 024 NATIVE~...rnicaeousmasses on matrix (St Marcel, Val d 1 Aosta Italy) lxl ?Op lx2 El.JO 2x2 EJ.00 rich brownchip 036 | | | Journal (issue) | gems you will receive as part of your collection. Marble MINERALS --------------8ism uthin it e, Blue...GEM MATERIALS, MARBLE IS FAIRLY EASY TO RECOGNISE BUT DIFFICULT TO DEFINE The finest marble is white, but... green, grey or red. Scientists usually regard marble as a rock rather than a mineralogical species....a reference to its distinctive sheen Oustre). Marble is not really a mineral species but a metamorphic...variable in composition, marble is principally made up of calcite. Each molecule of calcite contains one atom | | Chamberlain, Steven C., King, Vandall T., Cooke, Donald, Robinson, George W., Holt, Wayne (1999) Minerals of the Gouverneur Talc Company Quarry (Valentine Deposit), Town of Diana, Lewis County, New York. Rocks & Minerals, 74 (4) 236-249 doi:10.1080/00357529909602546 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | of the Gouvern No. 4 Quarry (valentine NIineyals Downloaded by [West Virginia University] at 12:13 05...14623 *Deceased Figure 1. South end of the No. 4 quarry as it appeared in August 1995. The western contact...visible to the right. The eastern contact with the marble is obscured by the entry mad and overburden on... he Gouverneur Talc Company operates its No. 4 quarry for bulk wollastonite at the Valentine deposit...(Natural Bridge 7.5-minute quadrangle) (fig. 2). The quarry is located about 6 kilometers southwest of the | | | Catalog/List | covereing matrix. (Mte. Ferrato, PratO-Firenze, Italy) The display surfaces are about half covered with...white, flattened rhomhic crystals, confused with Calcite. (Tested material) {Huaron Mine, Peru) location... in cavities Grosseto, (Sharon in orange calcite. Italy) 1x1 c3.oo - COBALTITF...-GERSDOOFFITE,...white (Ci:3.IDpic, Val di Fassa, Trentino Region, Italy) 1x1 t4.00 BS09 Mordenite. DOL...is from (Molinello Mine Val G:raveglia, Liguria Regien, Italy) ··Na Ca Mn Si 1 0 02 8 ( OH) 2 6 2 2 1cm | | | Journal (issue) | D from the Latin word marmor (a shining stone), marble may be said to cover a considerable n u m b e r...marbles are typically rocks. W h a t is marble ? T o the geologist marble is usually defined as a crystalline...stonemasons— or shall it be said the commercial view—marble is widely interpreted and may be said to include...form of gypsum known as alabaster is thought of as marble. For the purpose of this study the subject of marbles...some other types of rocks, so like marble and therefore termed marble in commercial parlance, also demand | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | in amphibolite gneiss at the Keystone trap-rock quarry, Cornog, Pennsylvania. • Pink to green crystals...crystals are found in skarn at Traversella, Piedmont, Italy. Epidote gwindels form attractive floater groups...material was found, the cavity was likely filled with calcite that was later etched away with acid to expose...bottom of the photo is all that remains of the calcite after specimen preparation. Figure 9 (above). A...with sprays of green epidote, from the Honqizhen quarry, China. 448 ROCKS & MINERALS with colorless | | | Book (edition) | Tenacity properties in all directions), as No and Ne for optically uniaxial minerals. and as Np, Nm, and...opaque mineral to reflect the light gypsum. 3 - calcite, 4 - fluorite, 5 - apatite, 6 - ortho- beam on...opaque, Juster brown. luster vitreous. H > 4. D = 321. Ne,o = 1.586. metallic. Sectile. H 2-2.5. D = 7.22....Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from... Actinolite - byssolite, 50 mm, Valle d'Aosta, Italy, G short-columnar crystals, usually in granular | | Scambelluri, Marco, Bebout, Gray E., Belmonte, Donato, Gilio, Mattia, Campomenosi, Nicola, Collins, Nathan, Crispini, Laura (2016) Carbonation of subduction-zone serpentinite (high-pressure ophicarbonate; Ligurian Western Alps) and implications for the deep carbon cycling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 441. 155-166 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.034 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University of Genova, Italy Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse IGG, CNR, Pisa, Italy Department of Earth...Editor: T.A. Mather Keywords: subduction serpentinite marble aqueous carbonic fluids deep Carbon cycle high-pressure...mantle wedge, via study of fluid–rock evolution of marble and variably carbonated serpentinite in the Ligurian...their P–T flow trajectories. For example, abundant calcite/aragonite-bearing veins, and carbonated rocks in...serpentinite, marble and carbonated serpentinite in the Voltri Massif (W. Alps, Italy). We show that |
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