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Alpine Regions, central area, Switzerland,
Cavradi
The Cavradi gorge is
about 6 km west-southwest from the village of Sedrun and is the northern
portion of the Val Curnera. It is famous especially for hematite findings
with intergrowth of dark red rutile, within a zone of about 400 m lenght
in sericitic gneiss
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Apatite
Transparent XX up to 0.5 cm on matrix
12x8cm
Cavradi gorge (Cavadrischlucht), Curnera Valley, Grisons. Switzerland
Specimen n.939
Another photo: entire
piece
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Hematite
Association between hematite (X about 3x3cm wide) and quartz; on
the hematite many bright and well defined XX of red rutile
in the usual epitaxic growing (oriented overgrown of XX upon the surface
of another XX of different mineral)
6x4cm
Cavradi gorge (Cavadrischlucht), Curnera Valley, Grisons. Switzerland
Specimen n.354
Another photo: entire
piece
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Hematite
Another piece from Cavradi, a X (1.4x2cm wide): lustrous hexagonal XX,
bright, with metallic luster, growing from feldspar and quartz matrix.
There are, as usual, some rutile in very small XX
5x3cm
Cavradi gorge (Cavadrischlucht), Curnera Valley, Grisons. Switzerland
Specimen n.947
Another photo: a
bigger view
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Hematite
The best hematite from Cavadri in my collection: a group of XX, 3.8x2.5 cm wide, on smoked quartz. It comes from the
same place of previous photo, but it does not show rutile XX
12.5x8cm
Cavradi gorge (Cavadrischlucht), Curnera Valley, Grisons (Grischun). Switzerland
Specimen n.732
Another photo: a
bigger view
Another photo: a different point of view
Another photo: a different point of view
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Hematite
Hexagonal thin XX, grouped to form the typical iron rose, 1.8x1.4 cm
8x6.5cm
Cavradi gorge (Cavadrischlucht), Curnera Valley, Grisons (Grischun). Switzerland
Specimen n.944
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Hematite
Small but well defined hematite XX (0.4 cm wide) amongst quartz XX
up to 2.5 long
5x3cm
Cavradi gorge (Cavadrischlucht), Curnera Valley, Grisons. Switzerland
Specimen n.940
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Quartz
Quartz XX in parallel formation, biterminated and 3.5 cm long, with
2nd generation quartz XX on the top, semitransparent
10x8.5cm
Cavradi gorge (Cavadrischlucht), Curnera Valley, Grisons. Switzerland
Specimen n.1003
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