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Mixed Minerals

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Description
Locality: 
Somma-Vesuvius, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 3 × 3 cm
Weight: 
1 000.00gr
Description

This group includes 40 samples from Vesuvius-Monte Somma, some of rare beauty. Measures from TN to miniature to small cabinet. Weight approx. 1 kg.

1. Analcime: Transparent and colorless icositetrahedral crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples

2. Anorthite TL: Transparent and colorless complex crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

3. Anorthite TL: White complex crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

4. "Apatite": Transparent and colorless elongated crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

5. Augite: Black monoclinal crystals, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

6. Baddeleyite: Green tablets vertically stripped, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

7. Cuspidine  TL: spearheaded pink crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

8. "Davyna" TL: Vertically, unusually transparent and colorless streaked barrel crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

9. Diopside: Parallel, yellow-green crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

10. Dolomite: white silkworms crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

11. Forsterite TL: semitransparent gray crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

12. Gypsum: Transparent and colorless monoclinal crystals with green celadonite, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples

13. Geikielite: dark complex crystal, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

14. Ghelenite: square brown crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

15. "Garnet: crystals rombododecaedrici red - orange, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

16. "Guarinite" TL: yellow crystal packets, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

17. Hauyne: crystals and blue granules, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

18. Hauyne: pseudomorphoses on leucite, quarry Le Novelle, Herculaneum, Naples

19. Hematite: pseudo-hexagonal metal and botoloid crystals, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples

20. "Horneblende": flattened and streaked black crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

21. "Humite" TL: rather transparent brown crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

22. Hydromagnesite: (Hydrodolomite) white spheres, The Novels, Herculaneum, Naples

23. Lapis Lazulo: small blue mass,, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

24. Leucite TL: 12 mm crystal, white icositetraedric, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

25. Magnetite: lead-colored crystal "nail-head", ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

26. Meionite TL: group of transparent and colorless elongated crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

27. Microsommite TL: group of silky crystals in barrel, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples

28. Nepheline TL: Hexagonal white prisms with orange titanite with spear tip, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

29. Norbergite: Light yellow complex crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

30. Phillipsite: transparent elongated prismatic crystals with pseudocube of chabazite, Pollena Trocchia, Naples

31. Pseudobrookite: dark red elongated crystals, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples

32. Sanidine: green tablets, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

33. Sodalite: unusually transparent and colorless rombododecahedric crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

34. Spinel: black octahedral crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

35. Spinel: Pink complex crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

36. Thomsonite: picturesque group of transparent and colorless crystals, Le Novelle, Herculaneum, Naples

37. Vesuvianite TL: brown crystals on brown garnet, with sodalite, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

38. Vesuvianite TL: Prismatic brown crystal, with cuspidine, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

39. Wollastonite: unusually well-elongated white crystals with nepheline, titanite and “garnet”, Le Novelle, Herculaneum, Naples

40. Zircon: blue octahedral crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

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Mixed Minerals

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Terms and Conditions - November 20th, 2015 RESPONSE TIME: generally respond within 24 hours to questions and requests for purchase, through the contact e-Rocks or directly via e-mail. PAYMENTS: All transactions must be in pounds sterling, US dollars or Euros. The preferred payment is via PayPal. Transactions between buyers and sellers of e-Rocks, using PayPal, are covered by the protection buyer / seller PayPal - subject to terms and conditions. Under the terms of PayPal, as the delivery address we will use only the 'address registered on PayPal. If you want to have an object to another address, please take contact prior to bidding. TRANSPORTATION: Refer to shipping indicated on individual items and to the transport policy on the product page. The shipping costs will be combined when two or more samples are purchased together. We will charge the effective costs. Insurance, register mail or courier alternative can be provided at the expense of the purchaser. The mailing address for Mineralia is: Punzo Immacolata Via Epomeo 72 80126 Naples Italy Within 7 days after payment, we will make the shipment, unless you ask for a suspension of shipment. RETURNS: Any return must take place within 10 days of receipt item. The costs of return shipment are borne by the buyer. Once you receive your sample, we will refund the money of the purchase, but not those of the expedition. For questions or concerns, please contact us! Thank you!