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Italy, Lombardia, Bergamo prov., Zogno (Camissinone) mine
Zogno mine (more precisely the locality is Camissinone di Zogno and the local
name is Camissinone mine, but I rely on the more famous name of Zogno) is an abandoned
fluorite mine that offered, in the past, specimens
very fine for the contrast: purple fluorite on white quartzitic matrix
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Fluorite
Group of cubic XX, dark purple, edge up to 1cm on quartz matrix
7x8.5cm
Zogno (Camissinone) mine, Zogno
Bergamo. Italy
Specimen n.77
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Fluorite
Two cubic XX, edge up to 0.9cm, on clear quartz matrix
5x3.5cm
Zogno (Camissinone) mine, Zogno
Bergamo. Italy
Specimen n.685
Another photo:
entire piece
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Fluorite
Giant cubic XX, edge up to 11,8 cm
11.8x10cm
Zogno (Camissinone) mine, Zogno
Bergamo. Italy
Specimen n.1254
Another photo: a
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Fluorite
Large cubic XX, edge up to 8.3 cm,
with a clear dark phantoms inside, and a tipically corroded surface.
Color moves to dark purple inside to pale lilac to green externally
8x8.3cm
Zogno (Camissinone) mine, Zogno
Bergamo. Italy
Specimen n.1255
Another photo: a
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Fluorite
Group of XX grown together with nice color
from pale lilac to pale green
8.5x7cm
Zogno (Camissinone) mine, Zogno
Bergamo. Italy
Specimen n.1256
Another photo:
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Fluorite
Group of intergrown cubes, edge up to 1.5cm, light purple to pink;
Fluorite is grown on a quartz vein, visible in transparency; some
small quartz XX are visible externally
7.7x6cm
Zogno (Camissinone) mine, Zogno Bergamo. Italy
Specimen n.366
Another photo: a different
view
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Fluorite
In this piece the white fluorite becomes dark purple externally,
with a lot of small cubes faces (edge max is 0.5cm)
5.5x5cm
Zogno (Camissinone) mine, Zogno Bergamo. Italy
Specimen n.542
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Fluorite
Cubic XX up to 0.8cm; there are also some comination of cubes +
octahedron (the visible edge is 1cm long, but the XX are not well
developed, they are bigger)
11x7.5cm
Zogno (Camissinone) mine, Zogno Bergamo. Italy
Specimen n.546
Another photo: entire
piece
Another photo:
bigger view on
detail
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Fluorite
Cubic phantoms XX, with a very good color: pale lilac externally pale green
internally;
the biggest X in evidence has a 4cm edge
10x9cm
Zogno (Camissinone) mine, Zogno Bergamo. Italy
Specimen n.753
Another photo: small
X in evidence
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Fluorite
Cubic phantoms XX, max edge 1.2cm, semitransparent, on dolomite stone with some
baryte and quartz
10x9cm
Zogno (Cammissinone) mine (?), Zogno Bergamo. Italy
Specimen n.468
The combination of
Baryte and Fluorite in this piece resemble the Spanish specimens. It is
not self-collected so I rely upon trust of collector who
gave it to me
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Fluorite
Combination of cubic phantoms XX, max edge 2.9cm.
6x6cm
Zogno (Cammissinone) mine (?), Zogno Bergamo. Italy
Specimen n.495
The combination of
Baryte and Fluorite in this piece resemble the Spanish specimens. It is
not self-collected so I rely upon trust of collector who
gave it to me
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Fluorite
This piece comes from a place not far from Zogno, probably unknown
by most people;
the piece is slightly poor, but I self collected it when I was 12 years
old, so I decided to insert it here. There are cubic lilac tinged XX, some with green shades, on matrix made of compact
fluorite. The XX show some phantoms inside
11x6cm
Bedulita mine, Imagna Valley, Bergamo. Italy
Specimen n.23
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