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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: 
2 × 3 × 2 cm
Weight: 
270.00gr
Description

This group includes 50 rare or very rare samples, all from Somma Vesuvius, fumaroles, metamorphoses, lava and sanidinitici. Some species are very common, but I have included anyway because they are really rare at Vesuvius. Measurements MM, TN, weight about 270 grams.

In the picture: sarcolite, baddeleyite, artroeite, fluor-potassicrichterite, lazurite, mimetite, prehnite, quartz, red spinel.

1. Actinolite: bundles of white crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples

2. Albite: milk white elongated crystals, Cava Trapolino, Sant’Anastasia, Naples

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

4. Artroeite: groups of white or colorless needle-shaped crystals, Crater of Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

5. Baddeleyite: vertically striped brown tabular crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

6. Caledonite: elongated blue crystals on tenorite, Cratere Vesuvio, Ercolano, Naples

7. Coverings: small yellow crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples

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

9. Chabazite: colorless pseudocubic crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples

10. Chabazite: crystals facolitic dress, Lagno Amendolare, Sant’Anastasia, Naples

11. Challacolloite: small white-milk arborescent aggregate crystals, Cratere Vesuvio, Ercolano, Naples

12. Cotunnite: erupting white crystalline crust 1944, Fumarole Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

13. Chondrodite: orange complex crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples

14. Crysocolla: green glass deposition on tenorite, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

15. Ellestadite: bundles of light brown needle-shaped crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples

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

17. Fluoborite: colorless elongated crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples

18. Fluoronatrocoulsellite: groups of transparent and colorless octahedral crystals, Cratere Vesuvio, Ercolano, Napoli

19. Fluoro-potassicrichterite: blue-green crystals, Lagno Amendolare, Sant’Anastasia, Naples

20. Geikielite: dark complex crystal with metallic pyrrotite, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples

21. Graphite: black lumps, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples

22. Guarinite: packets of yellow crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

23. Hydroxibritholite-Ce: small pale green elongated crystals on zircon, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

24. Lazurite: blue lumps, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

25. Kalsilite: brown decayed crystals, Pollena, Naples

26. Marialite: silky crystals in parallel association, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Naples

27. Matlockite: transparent and colorless micaceous crystals, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

28. Microsommite TL: silky crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples

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

30. Molybdenite: metal scales, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples

31. Montesommaite TL: truncated bipiramid crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples

32. Opal: white accretion, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples

33. Paratacamite: green deposition on tenorite, Lave 1872, Torre del Greco, Naples

34. Pargasite: black elongated crystals, Cratere Vesuvio, Ercolano, Naples

35. Prehnite: light blue hemispheres, Pollena, Naples

36. Pyrite: small yellow cubes: Cava Trapolino, Sant’Anastasia, Naples

37. Pyrocloro: yellow octahedrons, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

38. Quartz: transparent and colorless crystals, alpine dress, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

39. Sarcolite TL: complex, transparent and colorless crystal, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

40. Red spinel: complex red crystal, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples

41. Sulfur: yellow bipiramids, fumaroles from the crater floor, Cratere Vesuvio, Ercolano, Naples

42. Sylvite TL: white crystalline crust, Cratere Vesuvio, Ercolano, Naples

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

44. Tenorite: TL: elongated metal crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

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

46. Thorite on zircon: complex green crystal with zircon, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

47. Uraninite: small complex metal cubes, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples

48. Acicular fibrous zeolites: curls of white acicular crystals on thomsonite, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples

49. Zircon: blue octahedrons, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples

50. Zirconolite: packages of red crystals, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, 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!

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