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Mixed Minerals

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Locality: 
Somma-Vesuvius, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
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Size: 
2 × 2 × 2 cm
Description

This group contains 43 rare or very rare samples found to Somma-Vesuvius. Some of them come from the fumaroles of the Vesuvius crater and probably date from the eruption of 1944. These fumaroles, which were studied by researchers at the Vesuvius Observatory, they were vandalized and destroyed along with the minerals they contained. Dimensions: MM and TN. Weight: about 300 grams.

1. Ankerite: (analyzed) selliformi groups of crystals on each other, light yellow, Pollena, Naples, Campania, Italy;

2. Artroeite: (analyzed)   white crystals or colorless tufts of red lava, crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

3. Baddeleyite: elongated red tablets, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

4. Betafite: (analyzed) Dark octahedron, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy;

5. Britholite -Ce: green hexagonal prismatic crystals tabular, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

6. Calcioaravaipaite: (analyzed) hemisphere of white crystalline tabular, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

7. Caledonite:  (analyzed) blue elongated prismatic crystals of tenorite, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

8. Cerussite: (analyzed) crystal clear and colorless diamonds, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

9. Cerussite: crust of microcrystalline yellow octahedral galena, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

10. Chabazite: transparent crystals and colorless facolitico dress, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Napoli, Campania, Italy;

11. Challacolloite: (analyzed- Second World discovery) branched clusters of white crystals, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

12. Cotunnite TL: white crystalline crust, ex coll. Carati, 1944 Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

13. Coulsellite: (analyzed) group of transparent and colorless octahedral crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

14. Crisocolla: (analyzed) Glassy Green deposition on tenorite, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

15. F-potassicrichterite TL: pale blue crystals in limestone, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

16. Fluoborite: (analyzed) crystals in parallel association, elongated, transparent and colorless, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Napoli, Campania, Italy;

17. Kalsilite: brown crystals decayed, Pollena, Naples, Campania, Italy;

18. Gearksutite: (analyzed) of white crystals groups in parallel association, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

19. Geikielite: Dark Crystal hexagonal outline, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

20. Graphite: gray metallic small masses, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

21. Hematite: (curiosity) crystal rhombus-shaped, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Napoli, Campania, Italy;

22. "Magnesioferrite" TL: columnar crystals covered with Hematite, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Napoli, Campania, Italy;

23. Marialite: transparent and colorless silky crystals, in parallel association, Cava Le Novelle, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

24. Matlockite: (analyzed) tabular crystals squared transparent and colorless, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

25. Microsommite TL: (analyzed) crystals in white silky parallel association, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Napoli, Campania, Italy;

26. Mimetite: (analyzed) yellow needles, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

27. Molybdenite: metal flakes, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

28. Montesommaite TL: bipyramidal crystal clear colorless trunk, Pollena, Naples, Campania, Italy;

29. Norbergite: light yellow crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

30. Opal: crystals trumpet, opalescent crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

31. Periclase TL: granules or green octahedra, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

32. Paratacamite: (analyzed)  Green deposition on tenorite, Lave 1872, Tower of Greek, Naples, Campania, Italy;

33. Prehnite: (analyzed) blue hemisphere, Pollena, Naples, Campania, Italy;

34. Pseudobrookite: elongated red tablets, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Napoli, Campania, Italy;

35. Sylvite TL: (analyzed) crust of crystals transparent and colorless octahedral, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

36. Sulfur: Yellow bipiramidi, fumaroles fund Crater, Great Cone of Vesuvius, Ercolana, Naples, Campania, Italy;

37. Tenorite TL: group of complex crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

38. Tenorite TL: metal foliaceous crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, the area below the yellow spot, Cone of Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

39. Uraninite: (analyzed) small metal cubes on mica (phlogopite?) San Vito, Ercolano, Napoli, Campania, Italia;

40. Zirconolite: Red crystals packages, Cava Le Novelle, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

41. Albite: (analyzed) White elongated crystals, Cava Trapolino, Sant'Anastasia, Napoli, Campania, Italy;

42. Actinolite: mass of white crystals acicular, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

43. Azurite: small blue granules with atacamite, Villa English Tower of Greek, Naples, Campania, Italy;

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