Brusson mines. Group of mines, famous since it was possible to find samples of native gold. This is one of the Italian gold old mines area in the Alpine region; the gold is embedded in quartz veins mixed with other sulphides, hosted into gneiss and metamorphic calceschists

 

Gold
Sculptural formation, in quartz, with a small X of arsenopyrite
6x6cm
Brusson mines, Brusson, Aosta. Italy
Specimen n.738

Quartz
XX up to 13.5cm long, encrusted by goethite (I suppose from a post-mining formation). Arbaz mine belongs to the more known Brusson mines complex; Arbaz village is about 10 km south of Brusson
13.5x11cm
Arbaz mine, Arbaz, Aosta. Italy
Specimen n.756

Quartz
Group of XX up to 9cm long, some very thin 
13.5x12.5cm
Arbaz mine, Arbaz, Aosta. Italy
Specimen n.911

Quartz
Divergent XX grouped in a 9cm long formation, apparently with double termination. Quartz is reddish internally and partially coated by white oxides
12x8cm
Arbaz mine, Arbaz, Aosta. Italy
Specimen n.871

Another photo: a bigger view

Quartz
Biterminated X, hyaline, crossed by another small X
5x8cm
Bechaz mine, Bechaz, Aosta. Italy
Specimen n.1384

Emarese. Asbestos veins, with mines and quarries activities, closed in 1967. Emarese is about 20 km west of Brusson

Aragonite 
Elongated XX up to 5cm, on a thin plate of matrix
10x9 cm
Settarme-Chassant mine, Emarese, Aosta. Italy
Specimen n.585

Another photo: a different view
Another photo: a different view

Aragonite 
Surface entirely covered by aragonite elongated XX. As you can see in the 2nd photo, there is aragonite on both the sides of this piece
16x11 cm
Settarme-Chassant mine, Emarese, Aosta. Italy
Specimen n.173

Another photo: a different view
Another photo: a bigger view

Aragonite
Mass of small XX, with a white to gray color, very aesthetic in my opinion
6x9cm
Settarme-Chassant mine, Emarese, Aosta. Italy
Specimen n.956

Another photo: entire piece

Other areas

Epidote
Yellow-green epidote XX up to 0.7cm, from a locality closed to the more famous Bellecombe area
9.5x7cm
Ponte delle Capre, Saint-Vincent, Aosta. Italy
Specimen n.992

Muscovite var alurgite
Small lamellar XX of alurgite
6x6cm
Prabornaz mine, Saint-Marcel, Aosta. Italy
Specimen n.284

Piemontite
Thin elongated XX of piemontite on mg-mineralized matrix
9.5x7cm
Prabornaz mine, Saint-Marcel, Aosta. Italy
Specimen n.365

Another photo: bigger view

Diopside var violane
Fibrous mass of violane, in the Mg-mineralized rock
6x5cm
Prabornaz mine, Saint-Marcel, Aosta. Italy
Specimen n.621