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Description
Locality: 
Somma-Vesuvius, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1 × 2 cm
Weight: 
550.00gr
Description

This micro collection includes 116 samples, representing 90 species found at Somma Vesuvius. The species are classic for the locality, but there are also several rare and TL samples.

Measurements: MM and TN, weight: 550 gr.

Shipping after January 6, 2019.

 

In the picture: Opal, Sodalite, Red Spinel, Tenorite, "Humite", Gray Zircon, White Zircon, Fluorescent Sodalite, Kaliophillite.

 

1. Actinolite: bundles of white crystals in limestone, Vallone di San Sebastiano, Somma Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy;

2. Analcime: colorless complex crystals with calcite, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

3. Anorthite TL: mostly colorless and transparent complex crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

4. Apatite ": groups of elongated colorless and transparent crystals, ex Coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

5. Aragonite: white tufts, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

6. Artroeite: tufts of colorless crystals, on red lava, fumaroles of the Crater, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

7. Atacamite: light green deposition on gray lava called "of 1631", Villa Inglese, Torre del Greco, Somma-Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy;

8. Augite: 2 black loose crystals, one sloping roof monoclin and the other dovetailed twin, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

9. Baddeleyite: elongated tabular crystals, red on "green mica", ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

10. Baddeleyite: groups of elongated tabular green crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

11. Calcioaravaipaite: rosettes of white tabular crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

12. Calcopyrite: clusters of golden crystals, Amendolare Lagno, Sant'Anastasia, Somma Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy;

13. Caledonite: small elongated blue crystals on tenorite, fumaroles of the Crater, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

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

15. Calzirtite: small orange-yellow crystal on calcite with forsterite, black spinel, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

16. Cerussite: imperfect opalescent crystals, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

17. Chabazite: small transparent and colorless pseudocubic crystals with phillipsite, Cava Trapolino, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy;

18. Chabazite - facolith: crystals in transparent and colorless facolithic dress, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy;

19. Crysocolla: green deposition, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

20. Crysocolla: green deposition on gray lava called "of 1631", Villa Inglese, Torre del Greco, Naples, Campania, Italy;

21. Cuspidine TL: "pointed spear" rosy crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

22. Davyna "TL: white siliceous crystals in parallel association, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

23. Diopside: green elongated prismatic crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

24. Diopside: squat, prismatic, yellow crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

25. Dolomite: selliform, white crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

26. Ellestadite: white elongated crystals on yellow-green pyroxene, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

27. Enstatite: elongated gold-colored crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

28. Ettringite: confused groups of crystals sericei, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

29. Fayalite: little altered bronze crystals with sodalite, Vallone Molara, Sant'Anastasia, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

30. Ferrisepiolite: small yellow crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

31. Fluoborite: elongated transparent and colorless crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

32. Fluorite: colorless and transparent octahedra, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

33. Fluor-potassicrichterite TL: elongated blue-green crystals, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

34. Forsterite TL: complex yellowish crystals with black spinel, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

35. Galena: rounded metallic granules, lead gray, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

36. Gehlenite: brown squared crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

37. Geikielite: dark complex crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

38. Gypsum: crystals colorless monocles, Cava Trapolino, Sant'Anastasia, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

39. Graphite: black clots, San vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

40. Garnet ": orange rhombododecahedral crystals, formerly Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

41. Garnet ": brown rhombododecahedral crystals, formerly Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

42. Garnet ": loose black rhombododecahedral crystal, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

43. Guarinite "TL: packages of yellow crystals with tabular crystals of colorless sanidine, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

44. Hausmannite: dark brown deposition, Villa Inglese, Torre del greco, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

45. Hauyna: blue sketchy granules or crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

46. ​​Hematite: characteristic "quadro" crystal, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

47. Horneblende ": elongated black crystals striated vertically, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

48. Humite "TL: orange crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

49. Humite "TL: brown crystals, formerly Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

50. Humite "TL: reddish brown crystals, formerly Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

51. Hydrodolomite: milk white spherules, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

52. Hydromagnesite: hemispheres of elongated white crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

53. Hydrozincite: white encrustation on sphalerite, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

54. Hydroxylbritholite-Ce: small green prismatic tabular crystals in sanidinite, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

55. Hydroxylbritholite-Ce: small green prismatic crystals on dark green diopside, formerly coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

56. Kaliophillite TL: bundles of brown crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

57. Kalsilite: carious prismatic brown crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

58. Lazurite: blue lumps, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

59. Leucite TL: white metamorphosate crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

60. Leucite TL: gray icositetrahedral crystal on lava, Eremo al Vesuvio, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

61. Magnetite: complex metallic crystals with yellow diopside, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

62. Marialite: white squat crystals, vertically striated, in sanidinite, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

63. Matlockite: small squared, micaceous, colorless, very bright crystals, Cratere fumaroles, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

64. Meionite TL: elongated transparent and colorless prismatic crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

65. Merlinoite: elongated, colorless and transparent prismatic crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

66. Mica ": colorless and transparent hexagonal crystal packages, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

67. Mica ": packages of green crystals, formerly Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

68. Mica ": thick packets of brown-green crystals, ex-coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

69. Microsommite TL: tozzi sericei crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

70. Molybdenite: metallic tabular crystals with hexagonal contour, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

71. Montesommaite TL: transparent and colorless truncated bipyramides, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

72. Nefelina TL: transparent hexagonal prisms, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

73. Norbergite: complex yellowish crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

74. Opal: "trombetta" formations, Cratere Vesuvio, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

75. Paratacamite: green deposition on tenorite: lava of 1872, Torre del Greco, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

76. Periclase TL: green granules or octahedra, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

77. Perovskite: interpenetrated metallic cubic crystals, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

78. Phillipsite: white elongated crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

79. Pseudobrookite: elongated red metallic crystals, Cava Trapolino, Sant'Anastasia, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

80. Pyrite: gold-yellow granules in limestone, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

81. Pyrocloro ": yellow octahedral crystals, formerly Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

82. Pyrocloro ": red octahedral crystals, formerly Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

83. Pyrrotite: metallic yellow medallions, Cava trapolino, Sant'Anastasia, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

84. Quartz: group of colorless elongated prismatic crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

85. Sanidino: colorless and transparent tabular crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

86. Siderazoto: iridescent patina on lava, San Vito, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

87. Sodalite: white elongated crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

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

89. Sodalite: green, fluorescent crystal, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

90. Sphalerite: red tetrahedron, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

91. Spinel: black octahedra, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

92. Spinel: complex rose crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

93. Spinel: red complex crystal, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

94. Spinel: green octahedra, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

95. Spinel: violet small octahedra, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy;

96. Sulphur: small yellow bipyramides, fumaroles from the crater, crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

97. Sylvite TL: crust of colorless octahedral crystals, Crater fumaroles, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;

98. Tenorite TL: dark arborescent crystals, fumaroles from the Vesuvius Crater, Gran Cono del Vesuvio, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

99. Tenorite TL: metallic crystals, Macchia Gialla, Gran Cono del Vesuvio, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;

100. Thaumasite: curls of crystals sericei, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

101. Thomsonite: sheaf of tabular crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

102. Thomsonite: groups of white "chisel" crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

103. Thomsonite: packets of tabular crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

104. Thorianite: dark metallic cubic crystal, in sanidinite, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

105. Thorite: green octahedral crystals, mostly with extended prism, on blue zircon, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

106. Titanite: complex yellow green crystal, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

107. Vesuvianite TL: loose tabular brown crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

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

109. Volbhortite: yellow coating on lava called "of 1631", Villa Inglese, Torre del Greco, Somma-Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy;

110. Vonsenite: dark needle-like crystals, Amendolar Lagno, Sant'Anastasia, Somma-Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy;

111. Wollastonite: elongated white crystals elongated, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy;

112. Zeolites f.a. : curls of needle-like crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

113. Zircon: blue octahedra, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

114. Zircon: gray octahedron crystals, formerly coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

115. Zircon: white octahedra on vesuvianite, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

116. Zirconolite: crystals tabular red, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;

 

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