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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: 
800.00gr
Description

This group includes 60 champions all coming from the Vesuvio-Monte Somma, some rare or very rare. Measurements from TN to miniatures to small cabinet. Weight 800 gr.

In the pictures: "Apatite", Ellestadite, Fayalite, Fluorite, Humite, Chabazite, Microsommite, Thomsonite, Zeolitites fibroseus acicular.

1. Analcime: transparent and colorless icositetrahedral crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy;

2. Anorthite TL: transparent and colorless complex crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

3. "Apatite": elongated transparent and colorless crystals, Villa Inglese, Torre del Greco, Naples

4. Artroeite: 2nd world discovery, crystals with white tufts, on scoriacea lava, Vesuvius crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

5. Augite: black monoclini crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

6. Baddeleyite: vertically striated green red tablets, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

7. Celadonite: green deposition in geodine, Cava Trapolino, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy;

8. Chondrodite: complex yellow, transparent crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

9. Crysocolla: green deposition on magnetite, personal discovery, the Novelle quarry, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

10. Cuspidine TL: pink crystals with spear tip, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

11. "Davyna" TL: vertically striated barrel-shaped crystals, unusually transparent and colorless, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

12. Diopside: crystals in parallel association, yellow-green, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

13. Ellestadite: needle-like sericei crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

14. Enstatite: elongated yellow crystals, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

15. Fayalite: iridescent bronze crystals with white sodalite, Pollena, Pollena Trocchia, Naples, Campania, Italy;

16. Fluorite: colorless and transparent octahedra, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy

17. Fluor-potassicrichterite TL: rare, bundles of green crystals in the mass, Amendular Lagno, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy;

18. Forsterite TL: semitransparent gray crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

19. Geikielite: dark complex crystal, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

20. "Garnet": red rhombododecahedral crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

21. Hausmannite: dark deposition on gray lava "of 1631", Villa Inglese, Torre del Greco, Naples, Campania, Italy;

22. Hauyna: crystals and blue granules, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

23. "Horneblenda": black crystals flattened and vertically striated, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

24. "Humite" TL: orange complex crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

25. Hydromagnesite: white hedgehogs, Le Novelle, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

26. Hydrozincite: white rind on sphalerite, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

27. Kaliophilite TL: bundles of elongated brown xx, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

28. Lapis Lazulo: blue spots, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

29. Leucite TL: crystals white icositetrahedral, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

30. Magnetite: lead-colored crystal "a testa di chiodo", ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples

31. Meionite TL: group of white elongated crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

32. Merlinoite: transparent and colorless elongated crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy;

33. "Mica": packages of green crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

34. Microsommite TL: group of siliceous barreled crystals with chabazite (phacolite), Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy;

35. Montesommaite TL: many bipiramid xx transparent and colorless logs, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy;

36. Nephelina TL: hexagonal white prisms with orange lance-tipped titanite, ex-coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples

37. Norbergite: paglini complex crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

38. Paratacamite: green deposition on xx of tenorite, Lave of 1872, Torre del Greco, Naples, Campania, Italy;

39. Periclase: granules or green octahedra in the mass, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

40. Phillipsite: sheaves of white crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy;

41. Pyrite: cubic brass crystals in the mass, Amendolare Lagno, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy;

42. Pyrocloro: small yellow octahedra, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

43. Pyrrotite: iridescent granules or brass medallions, Cava Trapolino, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy;

44. Quartz: rare, crystals, alpine dress, colorless, Vallone dell'Olivella, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy;

45. Sanidino: colorless and transparent tablets, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

46. ​​Sodalite: transparent and colorless rhombododecahedral crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

47. Spinel: black octahedron crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

48. Spinel: complex rose crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

49. Spinel: green octahedra, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Italy;

50. Spinel: purple octahedra, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

51. Tenorite TL: crystals or metal flakes, ex coll. Panunzi, area below the "Macchia gialla" of the slopes of the Vesuvian Cone, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

52. Thaumasite: curls of crystals white sericeous, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

53. Thomsonite: group of semitransparent crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

54. Thorite: green octahedron on blue zircon, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

55. Titanite: lance-spike crystals, yellow, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

56. Vesuvianite TL: brown prismatic crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

57. Vonsenite: dark elongated crystals, Quarry Trapolino, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy;

58. Wollastonite: elongated white crystals, Le Novelle, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

59. Acicular fibrous zeolites: white elongated crystals curls, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy;

60. Zircon: light blue octahedral crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy.

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