Fluoro-winchite from
Mt Calvario, Biancavilla, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy
| Locality type: | Mountain | |
| Classification | ||
|---|---|---|
| Species: | 'Fluoro-winchite' (not an IMA approved species) | |
| Formula: | ◻{CaNa}{Mg4Al}(Si8O22)F2 | |
| Comments: | Amphiboles at this locality occurs as prismatic crystals in small cavities in teh rock and as fibrous masses in the groundmass. The prismatic crystals fall in the fluoro-edenite compositional space, there is more variation in the chemistry of the fibrous amphiboles in teh rock groundmass. The fibrous amphiboles is fluor dominant and falls within the tremolite, edenite, richterite and winchite sompositional space. | |
| Confirmation | ||
| Validity: | Confirmed | |
| Confirmation Methods: | XRD Infrared Spectroscopy | |
| Data | ||
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Fluoro-winchite data | |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Mt Calvario, Biancavilla, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy | |
| Data Identifiers | ||
| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 1358202 | |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:1358202:7 | |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 5f98ba32-efb2-4d70-9a64-4e60ccf2fe92 | |
| References | ||
Gianfagna, A., Andreozzi, G. B., Ballirano, P., Mazziotti-Tagliani, S., Bruni, B. M. (2007) STRUCTURAL AND CHEMICAL CONTRASTS BETWEEN PRISMATIC AND FIBROUS FLUORO-EDENITE FROM BIANCAVILLA, SICILY, ITALY. The Canadian Mineralogist, 45 (2) 249-262 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.45.2.249 Andreozzi, G. B., Ballirano, P., Gianfagna, A., Mazziotti-Tagliani, S., Pacella, A. (2009) Structural and spectroscopic characterization of a suite of fibrous amphiboles with high environmental and health relevance from Biancavilla (Sicily, Italy) American Mineralogist, 94 (10) 1333-1340 doi:10.2138/am.2009.3214 | ||
