 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2015 PERTICARA, ITALY This particularly attractive sulfur specimen is from Perticara, Italy, a locality...literature as being on Sicily; near Rimini, Marche; and in Romagna. It consists of crystals up to 3 cm...and Argentine Andes; at the famous solfataras of Italy, Japan. and Indonesia; and in Yellowstone Park,...the bacterial reduction of sulfates. particularly gypsum and anhydrite. a process that has resulted in many...sulfides, particularly pyrite and pyrrhotite, during mine fires or simply during chemical weathering. Although |  | | 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...Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto collection... 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | E. R. Swoboda Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Pezzotta Famous mineral localities: The Lord Brassy mine, Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... John Sinkankas (1915–2002) at the Pala Properties Mine Bash, 1977. Van Pelt photo. NOTICE Died, John Sinkankas...County $12 Museum, Himalaya mine $12 (Brazil), Bosch Collection v.10/#2 Jeffrey mine (Quebec), Alpine Rodingites...Lotharmeyerite (Mapimi) $12 v.15/#5 Jacupiranga mine (Brazil), v.15/#6 Bad Ems (Germany), Jensen quarry |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Messinian evaporitic basin, northern Apennines (Italy) I: Hydrocarbon biological markers for a hypersaline...in two bituminous marl layers and one distinct gypsum layer from a Messinian sedimentary basin, where...most abundant compounds in the extract from the gypsum sample. It is suggested that in this case these...essentially of evaporitic sediments e.g. limestones, gypsum, anhydrite, halite and K-Mg salts and are studied...therein). In Italy part of the Messinian is described as “formazione gessoso-solfifera” (gypsum and sulphur |  | | Report (issue) | | especially pyrite, during mine fires; found in sedimentary rocks. Association: Gypsum, anhydrite, halite...Wyoming. In California, at the Sulfur Bank mercury mine, on Clear Creek, Lake Co. Crystals from quarries...places in Italy, notably at Solfatara di Pozzuoli, near Naples; at Perticara, near Rimini, Marche; and...crystals from Spain, at Conil, near Cadiz, Cadiz Province. In Baja California, Mexico, at San Felipe. Numerous |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geologiche, L.go S. Leonardo Murialdo, 1, Rome I-00146, Italy Received 9 April 2004; received in revised form...from the Adriatic side of the central Apennines (Italy). At the Fonte dei Pulcini section (SE Majella Mts...salinity crisis; Late Messinian Lago-Mare; Central Italy T Corresponding author. Tel.: +39 06 54888034;...Basin with the deposition of evaporites (salt and gypsum layers). The main stratigraphic events recognized...of evaporitic limestones (Calcare di Base Fm.), gypsum, and salt deposits (Lower Evaporites Fm.) as a |  | Bassetti, Maria Angela, Manzi, Vinicio, Lugli, Stefano, Roveri, Marco, Longinelli, Antonio, Ricci Lucchi, Franco, Barbieri, Mario (2004) Paleoenvironmental significance of Messinian post-evaporitic lacustrine carbonates in the northern Apennines, Italy. Sedimentary Geology, 172 (1) 1-18 doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2004.07.004 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lacustrine carbonates in the northern Apennines, Italy Maria Angela Bassettia,*, Vinicio Manzib, Stefano...43100, Parma, Italy c Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Largo S...S. Eufemia 19 41100 Modena, Italy d Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università di...Bologna Piazza di Porta San Donato 1, 40126 Bologna, Italy e Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università...bLa SapienzaQ, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 00185 Roma, Italy b Received 31 October 2003; received in revised |  | Haven, H.L.Ten, Rohmer, M., Rullkötter, J., Bisseret, P. (1989) Tetrahymanol, the most likely precursor of gammacerane, occurs ubiquitously in marine sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 53 (11) 3073-3079 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(89)90186-5 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | basin (VAI and RIC~I LUCCHI, 1977), 1 from the Perticara basin (TEN HAVENet al., l985), 1 from the N~rdlinger...hypersaline environments, and the Vena del Gesso and Perticara samples are bituminous shaies interbedded between...del Gesso basin, but not in the sample from the Perticara basin Tetrahymanol has thus been found in several...(Monterey formation, Phosphoria retort shale, Perticara basin), gammacerane is present, indicating that...Messinian evaporitic basin, northern Apennines (Italy) I: Hydrogen biotogical markers for a hypersaline |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cleavelandite, Niyit Bruk, near Dassar, Gilgit Province, Pakistan. Marvin Rausch specimen, Jeffrey Scovil...Pelt photo. September/October: Chalcocite, Flambeau mine, Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wiscon sin. F. John Barlow...Ice Age, R. Ratkevich, 26-29 Arizona, Vanadinite mine, 56-59 Arkansas, Potash Sulphur Springs, 154-70...425 Barker, P. B . , Wedding at the Palermo No. 1 Mine, 104-06 Bartsch, J . A., Flashback!, 294 Barytolamprophyllite...Muntyan, 298-310 Colorado, calcite, 298-310; Rocket mine, 46-50; San Juan Mountains mineral update, 180-87 |  | | Book | | (Federal Republic of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland...Saxony, GDR llfeld, Harz, GDR Rio Marina, Elba, Italy Schneeberg, Saxony, GD R Wolfsberg, Harz, GDR Freiberg...particularly interesting collection of miners' lamps and mine surveying instruments. Ancient and mediaeval mining...worn by mine officials of Saxony on ceremonial occasions. A special attraction is a model mine, 20m below...N. from the main railway station, landmark is a mine headframe. Tues.- Fri. 8.30-17.30 hrs.; Sat.- Sun |  | | Journal (issue) | | array of ornamental rocks and minerals to Germany, Italy, and other European countries for cutting, polishing...more or less synonymous with the Deccan Volcanic Province, the area now blanketed by Deccan basalt flows...Deccan Traps, the Deccan Traps (or Deccan Volcanic Province) form only a portion of the Deccan Plateau, and...tholeiite as a relatively felsic basalt. The plateau province of the Deccan basalts originated, then, in the...very few formations from recent times (such as of gypsum, very rarely seen in the Deccan), the age of the |  | | Journal (issue) | | by P. M. Adams Atacamite from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia .........................COVER: ATACAMITE, 10.5 cm, from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia. Collection of (and photo...break to collect minerals at the famous Red Cloud mine. Everyone had fun on the trip, and Graham found...after three semesters to pursue an opportunity to mine placer gold near Quartzsite. He also bought and...made many collecting trips back to the Red Cloud mine in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1996 he managed |  | Kohnen, Math E.L, Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S, Baas, Marianne, Dalen, A.C.Kock-van, de Leeuw, Jan W (1993) Sulphur-bound steroid and phytane carbon skeletons in geomacromolecules: Implications for the mechanism of incorporation of sulphur into organic matter. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 57 (11) 2515-2528 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(93)90414-r | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Miocene strata in the Perticara Basin (Italy) which consist of gypsum deposits interbedded with bituminous...layers. A 40-cm-thick marl layer interbedded between gypsum layers was sampled. The composition of the saturated...another marl layer from the same outcrop in the Perticara Basin was described by TEN HAVEN et al. ( 1985)...Vena de1 Gesso Basin in the Northern Appennines (Italy) were taken from fresh outcrops of different marly...filled with thick (35 m) beds of coarse crystalline gypsum associated with thinner carbonate and shaly (euxinic) |  | Damsté, Jaap S.Sinninghe, Kock-Van Dalen, A.C, De Leeuw, Jan W, Schenck, P.A, Guoying, Sheng, Brassell, Simon C (1987) The identification of mono-, di- and trimethyl 2-methyl-2-(4,8,12-trimethyltridecyl)chromans and their occurrence in the geosphere. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 51 (9) 2393-2400 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(87)90292-4 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geochemistry, Academia Sinica, Guiyang, Guizhou Province, The People’s Republic of China. t Present address:... 40 km south of the Renqiu oil field in Hebei Province, China (BRASSELLet al., 1987). The Northern Apennines...Miocene strata in the Perticara basin (Italy) which consist of varieties of gypsum deposits interbedded...the Jianghan basin in the Southern part of Hubei Province, Eastern China, deposited in a hypemaline lacustrine...of the three related Sicily Seep Oils (Sicily, Italy) is described by PALMERand ZUMBERGE(198 1). Briefly |  | | Journal (issue) | | on matrix, 12 cm, from the Elura lead-zinc-silver mine, No. 1 Level, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia...noticed about the previous issue on the Sweet Home mine was the peel-off temporary cover. The story behind...red is what it was all about for the Sweet Home mine! Had the rhodochrosites not been found in that stunningly...of Yuma on U.S. Route 95, and east on Castle Dome Mine Road across the Castle Dome Plains. The district...r i z o n a San Francisco. The famous Red Cloud mine is nearby in the Eureka district, later renamed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | C H (E1 9 2 3 , p . 3 6 2 ) . 5 PerticaE Italy. 2. Mine, Urbino, SULPIiIDES € SULPHOSALTS (i)SULTHIDES...L3 the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. A sketch supplied by Dr. V. de Michele (Pers.Comm...cm long from Perticara,Urbino, Italy and kept in the Institute of Mineralogy, Milan, Italy; Guillemin (1964...volume and mass. Sulphur, PerticaraMine, Urbino, Italy. This photographhas been supplied by, and is producedby...Michele, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy (Table 1-a3). RI CKIIOO D: l,tlRcEST CRYSTALS |  | | Book (volume) | | Lead 101. Copper-pyrites Copper-vitriol Mercury mine 46 crystals 101, nite Cuprite 107. 100. Copper-glance...395 Group Barytes 395. Celestite 398. 400 Gypsum and Anhydrite Hydrous 412. allied Minerals. ...77. Barytes II. 78. Celestite, 79. Gypsum I. Gypsum II. Crystallites enclosures spar; Felspar...England. fluor-spar with dull faces; on felspar. Italy. octahedron coloured with fluor-spar Maggiore... granite. on Calcite. Harz, cube (below) Italy. prism with the basal plane. dull. Andreasberg |  | | Book (volume) | | Spain by F. Vazquez Guzman Portugal by D. Thadeu Italy by P. Zuffardi European part of the U.S.S.R. by...feldspar, asbestos, talc, barite, fluorite, celesrine, gypsum, anhydrite, magnesite, bromine, bentonite, kaolin...Southwest Europe embraces France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Each volume has an introductory chapter of the...Luxembourg) and Aquitaine Basin (zone E) Iron. Sulphur Gypsum and anhydrite . Phosphate Siderolithique (iron...in Alsace Rock salt in Bresse and Valence Basin. Gypsum, smectite, sepiolite and attapulgite . Sulphur |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rfontec&i Co., Novara, Italy Abstract-Seventy oil and asphalt shows from eominental Italy and Si&ly went sampled...of organic, matter. ABIONG European countries, Italy present,s perhaps the highest abundance of hydrocarbon...the widespread distrihution of petroleum shows in Italy, the reserves of oil which have been ascertained...mostly from oil fields of continental 25 Of these, Italy and W~33EuT0 C~L~MB~ and GUISEFPE Sriwh-r ...The main differences with respect to the Central Italy basin are: (a) the presence of thick olistostromes |  | | Book | | do Sul, Brazil * 12.5 x 10 x 10.5 em Page 252: Gypsum rosette, Red River floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba...resulting in well-formed collectible crystals such as gypsum (page 252) and epidote (page 221). Solid crystal-filled...mineral’s physical properties in order to identify Gypsum it. Many minerals have very characteristic physical...museum — a fine way to recognize their hard work! Gypsum (selenite variety), Galetta, Ontario, Canada *...directions and interfere with each other. (for example, gypsum). Many minerals would be colorless if they were |  | | Book | | affect the neighbouring calcite, changing it into gypsum or into a whole series of other sulphates. Opals...in its chemical composition. Rock salt, sylvine, gypsum, calcite and some iron ores, such as chamosite...soft, yielding environment, such as crystals of gypsum in soft clay. Crystals may also develop freely...180°) occur quite frequently, e.g. in cassiterite gypsum, and fluorite. In some cases the growth of twin...Twinned Crystals of (from left to right): fluorite, gypsum, cassiterite 17 grows columnar crystals of pseudo-hexagonal |  | | Book | | museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...Gottlob Werner (1750-1817), a German geologist. Gypsum (Chihuahua, Mexico) ._23- As mineralogists studied...Quartz 6 Feldspar 5 Apatite 4 Fluorite 3 Calcite 2 Gypsum 1 Talc All that the scale tells us is that mineral...in native copper and silver; wedge-shaped, as in gypsum; spear-shaped, as in descloizite. Many minerals...over its beer: to go underground in a non-working mine is sheer folly unless you are accompanied by someone |  | | Journal (issue) | | gratifying. One young mineralogist, a former student of mine, said that although he had never met Mike, he had...they paid unto their masters. The veins of these mine are of such quality that the ore will not melt with... Mathewson. Decline of the District In 1599 the mine operators began to complain that rich ore of easy...about 50 ounces of silver per ton. Again in 1636 the mine operators complained of meager profits. Only about...Indians were in residence at Potosi. Disputes between mine operators over the possession of various complex | | | Book | | affect the neighbouring calcite, changing it into gypsum or into a whole series of other sulphates. Opals...in its chemical composition. Rock salt, sylvine, gypsum, calcite and some iron ores, such as chamosite...Bj I I I 14 rhodonite axinite a II o gypsum wolframite ntanite augne orthoclase barytes...soft, yielding environment, such as crystals of gypsum in soft clay. Crystals may also develop freely...180°) occur quite frequently, e.g. in cassiterite gypsum, and fluorite. In some cases the growth of twin |  | | Book | | times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...Law etc. (cf. also pyrite, p. 92; quartz, p. 127; gypsum, p. 177; feldspar, p. 242, etc.). A twinned crystal...pyrolusite, or other minerals. Tabular minerals (gypsum, barite, hematire) may occasionally form rosettes...hernacite calcite, magnesite, dolomite anh~drite, gypsum apatite olivine, andalusite, kyanite, staurolite...calcareous tufa (in part); halite (rock salt) with gypsum and anhydrite; manganese sinter, iron oolites 11 |
|
