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Mixed Minerals

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Description
Locality: 
Somma-Vesuvius, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2 × 2 cm
Weight: 
260.00gr
Description

This group includes 55 rare or very rare specimens, all from Somma Vesuvio, fumarol, metamorphosed, lava and sanidytic. MM, TN and small miniature sizes, weighing about 260 grams.

In photos: Thorite on zircon, quartz, pseudobrookite, paratacamite, gearksutite, fluoborite, crysocolla, baddeleyite, artroeite.

1. Albite: long white crystals, Cava Trapolino, Sant'Anastasia, Naples

2. Ankerite: groups of selliform crystals on each other, Pollena, Naples

3. Artroeiite: groups of white or colorless needles crystals, Vesuvio Crater, Herculaneum, Naples

4. Baddeleyite: dark elongated crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

5. Betafite: small dark red octahedras, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples

6. Britholite-Ce: small elongated pale green crystals on zircon, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma vesuvio, Naples

7. Cabasite: crystals in transparent and colorless facolithic dress, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples

8. Cabasite: small transparent and colorless pseudocube crystals, with phillipsite, Cava Trapolino, Sant'Anastasia, Naples

9. Calcite: curiosity: pointed cream crystals, fluorescent in white, Cava Trapolino, Sant'Anastasia, Naples

10. Calcopyrite: Golden granules, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples

11. Caledonite: stretched blue crystals on tenorite, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

12. Calzirtite: small yellow crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

13. Cerussite: yellowish alteration on galena, San vito, Herculaneum, Naples

14. Cerussite: imperfect opalescent crystals, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

15. Challacolloite: small white crystals of arborescending milk, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

16. Cotunnite  TL: white crystals sometimes in crust, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

17. Coulsellite: groups of transparent and colorless octahedral crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples

18. Crysocolla: green glassisation on tenorite, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

19. Crysocolla: green deposition on magnetite, Cava Le Novelle, Herculaneum, Naples

20. Diopside: yellow tinted crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

21. Ellestadite: light brown needle crystal beams, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

22. Enstatite: yellow elongated crystals, Cava Le Novelle, Herculaneum, Naples

23. Ferrisepiolite: yellow granules, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

24. Ferugusonite: small green crystal, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

25. Fluoborite: Elongated, Transparent and Colorless Crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples

26. Fluor-potassicrichterite  TL: elongated light blue crystals, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples

27. Gearksutite: groups of white lamellar crystals, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

28. Grafite: Black Lobsters, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

29. “Guarinite”  TL: yellow crystal packages, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

30. Lapis Lazuli: light blue areas, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

31. Malachite: Small Green Lump, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples

32. Marialite: silky crystals in parallel association, Cava Le Novelle, Herculaneum, Naples

33. Matlockite: transparent and colorless macaque crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples

34. Mimetite: yellow acicular crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples

35. Montesommaite  TL: Bipiramidale truncated crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples

36. Norbergite: light yellow crystalline crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

37. Paratacamite: green deposition on tenorite, Lave 1872, Tower of the Greek, Naples

38. Pargasite: black elongated crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples

39. Pirite: small golden crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples

40. Prehnite: Blue Semisphere, Pollen, Naples

41. Pseudobrookite: elongated tabular red crystals, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples

42. Pyrocloro: small yellow octahedron, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

43. Quartz: Transparent and colorless crystals, Alpine dress, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma vesuvio, Naples

44. Spinello: curiosity: small dark octahedron in broken crystal of leucite, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples

45. Spinello and Geikielite: Pink complex crystal with dark tabular crystal of geikielite, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

46. Purple spinel: purple octahedral with chondrodite (?) orange, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples

47. Sulfur: yellow bipiramids, fumaroles of the crater bottom, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

48. Tenorite  TL: metal scales, Lave of 1872, Greek Tower, Naples

49. Tenorite  TL: groups of dark crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples

50. Thaumasite: Curly white crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, naples

51. Thorianite: small metallic cubic crystal, rough, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

52. Thorite on zirconia: green crystal epitassium of thorite on zirconia, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

53. Uraninite: small metal cubes often complex, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

54. Zirconia: blue octahedral crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

55. Zirconolite: red crystal packages, Cava Le Novelle, Herculaneum, Naples

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