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Locality: 
Somma-Vesuvius, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2 × 2 cm
Weight: 
500.00gr
Description

This collection has 60 champions, all coming from the Somma - Vesuvio volcanic complex.

They are almost all quite rare species, some are personal findings. Dimensions: MM and TN.

Weight: about 400 gr.

In the photo: "Davyne" TL + Horneblende, Enstatite, Fayalite, Forsterite TL, Gehlenite, "Horneblende", "Mica", Sulfur; Wollastonite.

 

1. "Apatite": elongated, colorless and transparent crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.

2. Baddeleyite: vertically striated green tablets, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.

3. Celadonite: green or yellow incrustation, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

4. Chabazite: crystals in transparent and colorless facolithic dress, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy.

5. Crysocolla: green deposition on magnetite, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.

6. "Davyne" TL + Horneblende: white silky crystals with squat dark crystal of "Horneblende", ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

7. Ellestadite: beams of light-colored needle-like crystals, San vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.

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

9. Fayalite: bronze-colored crystals, with sodalite and "horneblende", Vallone Molara, Sant'Anastasia, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

10. Ferrisepiolite: yellow granules, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.

11. Fluoborite: elongated, transparent and colorless crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy.

12. Fluorite: white octahedra, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

13. Fluor-potassicrichetrite TL: blue-green needle-like crystals, Amendolare Lagno, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy.

14. Forsterite TL: clear and transparent crystals, with black spinel, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

15. Galena: clear metallic lumps, one altered in cerussite, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

16. Garnet: dark rhombododecahedral crystal, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

17. Gehlenite: squared crystals covered with brown calcite, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

18. Geikielite: dark complex crystal, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

19. Graphite: black clots, San vito, Ercolano, Naples Campania, Italy.

20. "Guarinite" TL: packages of yellow crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

21. Gypsum: small white crystals, Fumarole Vesuvius Crater, Somma-Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy.

22. "Horneblende": elongated black crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

23. "Humite" TL: brown complex crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

24. Hydroxylbritholite-Ce: tabular hexagonal crystal green, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

25. Kaliophilite TL: bundles of light brown crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

26. Lazurite: deep blue zonings, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

27. Magnetite + Diopside: "gradinata" metal octahedra, with yellow diopside, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

28. Marialite: silky crystals in parallel association, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.

29. Meionite TL: white squat prismatic crystals, with green pyroxenes, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

30. Merlinoite: colorless, elongated and transparent crystals, Pollena, Naples, Campania, Italy.

31. Mesolite: section of urchins of white elongated crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy.

32. "Mica": packets of green hexagonal crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

33. "Mica": packets of colorless hexagonal crystals, San Vito, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

34. Microsommite TL: groups of squat silky crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy.

35. Montesommaite TL: truncated, colorless bipyramid crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy.

36. Molybdenite: metallic flakes, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.

37. Nepheline TL: white hexagonal prisms, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

38. Norbergite: complex yellowish crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.

39. Opal: white stalactitic accretions, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy.

40. Periclase TL: octahedral crystals or limestone green granules, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

41. Prehnite: blue hemisphere, Pollena, Naples, Campania, Italy.

42. Pyrite: golden crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy.

43. Pyrrotite: hexagonal dark oxidized crystals, Le Novelle, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.

44. Pseudobrookite: red tabular crystals, Amendular Lagno, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy.

45. Pyroclore: yellow octahedra, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

46. Quartz: transparent and colorless crystals, alpine dress, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

47. Sanidine: colorless and transparent tabular crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

48. Sodalite: colorless and transparent rhombododecahedral crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

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

50. Sulfur: yellow bipyramides, fumaroles from the crater bottom, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy.

51. Thaumasite: white acicular crystals, San vito, Herculaneum, Naples,

52. Thomsonite-Na: white "chisel" crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

53. Tenorite TL: groups of dark crystals, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy.

54. Titanite: yellow "pointed spear" crystals,, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

55. Thorianite: small metallic cubic crystal, rough, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

56. Thorite: green crystal of thorite on zircon, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

57. Vesuvianite TL: brown complex crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

58. Vonsenite: metallic filiform crystals, Cava Trapolino, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy.

59. Wollastonite: elongated white crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.

60. Zirconolite + Perovskite: packs of red crystals with dark metallic cubes of Perovskite, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.

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