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Alpine Regions, western area, Piemonte, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola prov.,
Baveno
A small selection of minerals from the
granite quarries of Baveno
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Fluorite
Octahedron, edge 0.2cm, in a cavity of granite with small zinnwaldite
thin plates (mica group, no longer a species, a series of micas). The X
is clear and very transparent (it is one of my smaller pieces, I found it
when I was 12 years old) in a quarry near the lake
9x4cm
Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.Italy
Specimen n.202
2nd photo: a
view on the geode
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Laumontite
Group of elongated XX of laumontite
6x3.6cm
Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.Italy
Specimen n.1327
2nd photo
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Orthoclase
Fine X 2,8 cm tall, with smoked quartz
5x7.5cm
Baveno, Montecatini quarry, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.Italy
Specimen n.1331
Another photo:
entire piece |
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Orthoclase
Twinned XX, with smoked quartz
5.5x4.5cm
Baveno, Montecatini quarry, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.Italy
Specimen n.1324
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Orthoclase
Group of XX, with a coating of hematite
5.5x4cm
Baveno, Montecatini quarry, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.Italy
Specimen n.1328 |
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Pyrite
Small cube of deeply altered pyrite, edge up to 0.8 cm, in the
granite
6x4cm
Baveno, Montecatini quarry, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.Italy
Specimen n.1326
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Quartz
X of smoked quartz, 3.5 cm long, on granite
7x7cm
Baveno, Montecatini quarry, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.Italy
Specimen n.1332
2nd photo:
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