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Locality: 
Somma-Vesuvius, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.5 × 2 cm
Weight: 
250.00gr
Description

This collection has 50 champions, all coming from the Somma - Vesuvio volcanic complex.

I have also included in this micro-collection the very rare species, recently identified, Phenicocroite, from the fumaroles of the Crater of Vesuvius formed after the eruption of 1944, and I also point out the yellow Vesuvian and the brown orange spinel.

Dimensions: MM and TN.

Weight: about 250 gr.

In the pictures: Celadonite, Fluor-potassicrichterite TL, Forsterite TL, Gehlenite, Hydroxilbritholite-Ce, Lazurite, Sanidine; Thomsonite-Ca, Wollastonite.

 

Anorthite TL: transparent and colorless complex crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Artroeite: 2nd world discovery, crystals with white tufts, on scoriacea lava, Vesuvius crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Augite: black monoclini crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Baddeleyite: vertically striated green tablets, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Calzirtite: yellow little crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Celadonite: green or yellow incrustation, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Cerussite: brilliant crystals with Tenorite and opal, on scoriacea lava, Vesuvius crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Chabazite: crystals in transparent and colorless facolithic dress, with merlinoite,
Chondrodite: complex yellow, transparent crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Crysocolla: green deposition on magnetite, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Diopside: yellow crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Ellestadite: beams of light-colored needle-like crystals, San vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Fluoborite: elongated, transparent and colorless crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Fluorite: white octahedral, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Fluor-potassicrichetrite TL: blue-green needle-like crystals, Amendolare Lagno, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Forsterite TL: clear and transparent crystals, with black spinel, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Galena: clear metallic lumps, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
"Garnet": rhombododecahedral crystals with “Horneblende”, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Geikielite: dark complex crystal, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy
Gehlenite: squared crystals covered with brown calcite, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
"Guarinite" TL: packages of yellow crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Hauyna: blue granules, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Hematite: loose specular sheet, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy.
"Horneblende": elongated black crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Hydromagnesite: white hedgehogs, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Hydroxylbritholite-Ce: prismatic hexagonal crystal green, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Lazurite: deep blue zonings, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Leucite TL: crystals white icositetrahedral, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Magnetite: metal octahedron, Le Novelle, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Matlockite: brilliant crystals on scoriaceous lava, Vesuvius Crater, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Mesolite: section of urchins of white elongated crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Montesommaite TL: truncated, colorless bipyramid crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Pargasite: black crystals, Vesuvius Quota 1000, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Perowskite: dark crystals with Forsterite, Le Novelle, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Phenicocroite: very rare species, little red elongated crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Prehnite: blue hemisphere, Pollena, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Pyrite: golden crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Pyroclore: yellow octahedra, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Sarcolite TL: colorless and trasparent crystals, San vito, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Sfalerite: pink-brown crystal, San vito, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Sanidine: colorless and transparent tabular crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Spinel: rare brown octahedron, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Thomsonite-Ca: trasparent and colorless crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Thorianite: small metallic cubic crystal, rough, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Thorite: green crystal of thorite on zircon, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Titanite: yellow "pointed spear" crystals,, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Uraninite: metallic cubic crystals on “mica”, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Vesuvianite TL: yellow complex crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Wollastonite: elongated crystals inaltered, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
Zirconolite: red crystals group, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy.

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