 | | Journal (issue) | | PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FEDERICO PEZZOTTA CURATOR OF MINERALOGY...JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 2011 PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY Participating Collectors: Marco Amabili Silvia...cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto... MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY )In OutCine of MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY Federico Pezzotta Mineralogy...literature and music, scholars and aristocrats in Italy assembled some of the first great collections of |  | | | | Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by |GDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years... apophyllite 102, 102, 103 aquamarine 92, 92 aragonite 45, 45 cassiterite 34 disthene 79 dolomite 44... amphibole 100 amianthus, blue 100 -amianthus, Cape 100 amphibole group 98 annabergite 73 arduinite...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States...Filiform silver: Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) endritic copper rmation. Houghton fichigan) |  | | Book | | Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...amphibole 100 arnianthus, blue 100 ...amianthus, Cape 100 amphibole group 98 analcite 76, 108, I 11 anatase...68 apophyllite 102, 102, 103 aquamarine 92, 92 aragonite 45, 45 arduinite l 19, 121 argentite I0 argentojarosite...59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM All physical bodies in Nature can be...or slightly rotated Vitreous. Like glass 3 THE MINE Class I: native ·elements Chemical elernents found | | | Book | | with Orbis Publishing Limited abcdefgh Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara Adapted from the original Italian...amphibole 100 amianthus, blue 100 _amianthus, Cape 100. amphibole group 98 analcite 76, 108, 111 anatase...68 apophyllite 102, 102, 103 aquamarine 92, 92 aragonite 45, 45 arduinite 119, /2/ beudantite 58 corundum...Idrija (Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States...Filiform silver. Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) Dendritic copper famous (Michigan) 1822. It |  | | Book (edition) | | Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...(red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach);...(greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL B Same sample as above:...grey), carbonate matrix (dark grey); Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge |  | | Book | | it a veritable not just a picof informa- is mine tion, telling everything the collector needs to...Maria Gramaccioli. Matteo Boscardin. published in Italy in 1973 by Fratelli New Fabbri Editori. material...with its superb color States, illustrations in Italy in the lan- proved to be so well related to the...mineral collecting has become widespread here in Italy, as well as in the rest of Europe and America. Whether...southeast of Aosta in the extreme northwest part of Italy. 1 EQUIPMENT AND PREPARATION FOR THE HUNT It |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | Short Hills, New Jersey. Renato Pagano: Milan, Italy. Ole V. Petersen: Geologisk Museum, Copenhagen,...example, calcite CaCOg (14.1.1.1) has a polymorph aragonite (14.1.3.1), while vaterite (14.1.2.1) has yet...British Columbia NF Labrador (part of Newfoundland Province) MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NF Newfoundland...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver...Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*), Gilman Co., Silverton and Telluride, San Juan |  | | Book (edition) | | Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©...ye ty a ara id (ean ® “1 le hI AAP : oo A Mine seh Ranier “i i : lever vei ekealps ; cet ...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely |  | | Book | | Chalcolite as well as by certain specimens of Apatite, Aragonite, Chrysoberyl, Kyanite and Top.az, but in these...Epsomite. Breunnerite. Whewellite. Jarosite. Aragonite. Polyhalite. Tachydrite. Mosaotite. Flos Ferri... 2 3B fuses globule. Locality. readily to Cape Cornwall Huel Unity, Botallack, Huel Owls, and several...2ft Si + 10 H. Analysis bv D. Forbes, from i^aes Mine .....3 " Silica . . Alumina . .31-03 9'29...Kirkcudbrightshire syenite.— i^orej^fn. Norway; at Naes Mine about 10 miles east of Arendal Jotun Carbonic acid | | | Book (edition) | | Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double...MODE OF OCCURRENCE: Found in waste piles in a coal mine in the L'vov-Volynskii basin, USSR. It is found |  | | Book (volume) | | actinolite, smaltite and and occur in the schists of the Cape formation 1 ery-_ . Surprisingly rich veins of...have been mined to a Down to 52 m. (170 ft.) the mine was dry. depth of 56 m. (183 ft.) Chrysoprase,...Joseph shaft. At a southeastern. the southeast mine, this place the tuffs and marly slates Wengen...impregnated with Ore is also extracted in this part of the mine from a zone of cinnabar. impregnated rock lying...dolomite and the Wengen marly shales. In the Northwest mine, on the contrary, the succession of rocks the ent |  | | Book (edition) | | illustrations for SELLAITE, Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely... Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores...Juab County, and with austinite at the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utal1; in Inyo, San Bernardino,...Simon mine, Mineral AENIGMATITE County , Nevada. Magnificent specimens occur at the Ojuela mine, Mapimi |  | | Book (edition) | | of natural history, that general science, whose province it is to discriminate all the va es of matter...kinds of information relating to minerals. Its province as a science has already been assigned in the...aggregation . - In respect to the mode of aggregation, mine rals, in the first place, are either solid or fluid...pertaining to these subjects being the appropriate province of chemistry, and should of course be looked for...development of mineralogy. Classification . It is the province of classification to settle what con stitutes |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vermutung über die Entstehung auf der Halbinsel Calamita lag nahe. Es fanden sich jedoch - neben vielen...Unterschiede zu den mineralisierten Gängen im „Gneis von Calamita". Nähere Untersuchungen ergaben Hinweise auf mehrfache...ist gekennzeichnet durch den in den Gneisen der Calamita recht häufigen Chlorit 3. In mehr oder minder...einzubinden, wobei sich Parallelen zum Gneis von Calamita anbieten. Wie schon erwähnt ist das Anstehende...vorsichtiger Korrelation mit anderen Gesteinen der Calamita ergeben sich folgende Entwicklungsstadien: Stadium |  | | Book (edition) | | ALGERIA . TRon OTHER : . METALS Statistics CAPE OF GOOD GOLD COAST HOPE . Statistics THE...Penney : 11.—Profile section across ‘Last Chance”. Mine, Utah 12.—Section of Argentiferous Sandstone bed...Knockmahon, tee 37.—Fragment of lode, Bergmannstrost Mine, Clausthal 38.—“ Pebble,” Huelgoét. 39.—Section...Extended Hustlers’ Mins 55.—Section across New Chum Mine 56.—Diagrammatic section across Broken Hill Tage...Juan Teniente Mine 101.—Vein at theNdsmark Mine ; horizontal section . 102.—Clee Mine, Pitkaranta ; section |  | | Book (edition) | | edition of the work, aud to soeh additionB pre- on Mine- make to it as later discoveries might render...distance between the poles of the m\ of a cryatal of aragonite, \n diminished 2 "8, and the :^je:5 distance between...oxide of tin among those Tsitre, lluor, apatite, aragonite, w hieh aeipiire resinous wi)Il'rain. whieh...tCBMung kad beoomeB oxidized, and sinks into the cape], kirbg the globule of silTer. In some eases, the...Jp9eudamorphi9m Calcite Maicaiite in the form oi „ Aragonite. Pyrite. 4A0r Orgame JSbrmi. Calcite. Lunonite |  | | Report (volume) | | and sediment. Concentrated waters associated with mine wastes may precipitate a variety of metal-sulfate...role of soluble sulfate minerals formed from acid mine drainage (and its natural equivalent, acid rock...ENVIRONMENTS .................................... . 351 Mine drainage .........................................phase discovered on slag dumps at Val Varenna, Italy, in association with bechererite (Burns et al. 1998)...occurring in the exhalation deposits of the Vesuvio (Italy) and Tolbachik (Russia) volcanoes. There are several |  | | Book (volume) | | discoveries in India, Austria, Hungary, France, Italy, and Spain have shown that a Copper Age, about 4000...According to M. Berthelot, 9 the oldest known copper mine associated with the smelting of copper occurs in...California, Utah, Colorado, and Tennessee. The Anaconda mine (Butte, Montana) is said to have been the most productive...worked. The average yield of eacli is not stated. The mine at Cliuquieamata is very rich, yielding (.he oxidized...natives for centuries. There are mines in Rhodesia, Cape Colony, Congo Free State, etc. The mines of Nainaqualand |  | | Book (edition) | | cent, manganese, and 0*15 per cent, All-Mine Pig. All-Mine Pig. Alloy A German Allisatin. contains...The Curacao aloe is obtained from Aloe vera and Cape aloe from Aloe Natal aloe is probably derived ferox...succotina, and Uganda or Crown aloe is a brand of Cape aloe formerly produced by allowing it to ferment...fcetida. Aloesol. The mono-acetyl derivative of Cape or Aloisiite. Uganda aloes, C^H^aCl^ A mineral...nitrate, and 40 per cent, ammonium nitrate. A coal-mine explosive containing 9-1 1 per cent, of nitro-glycerin |
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Vallone stope, Cape Calamita Mine, Capoliveri, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy