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Italy, Sardegna, Cagliari prov.,
Assemini and Pula area
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Assemini, San leone mine.
Iron mine (magnetite ore bodies hosted into skarn; closed in 1963) |
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Quartz
XX up to 5.5cm long, covered by a coating of limonite. It is a
typical sample from this mine
10x7cm
San Leone mine, Assemini, Cagliari. Italy
Specimen n.580
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Siderite ("mesitine"
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Group of delicate white XX up to 2.1cm long. The
geode with this mineral seems to be exausted, after the last finding of 2005.
Some one classify this piece as mesitine but bibliografy reports
a different story; mesitine is a variety of ferroan magnesite, like the
breunnerite n.36 you can see in the other section devoted to Italian
minerals
(I maintain some doubts about this piece...)
12x6.5cm
San Leone mine, Assemini, Cagliari. Italy
Specimen n.579
Another photo:
entire piece
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Siderite ("mesitine"
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Another piece of mesitine/siderite; white XX, up to 3 cm wide, are
covered by a brown coating. Some small calcite XX (see the one in
the bottom of picture) with typical hexagonal shape
10x10.5cm
San Leone mine, Assemini, Cagliari. Italy
Specimen n.578
Another photo: a
bigger view |
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Orthoclase
Well formed X of orthoclase, 2 cm lonf, with albite and
quartz
5x7cm
Santa Margherita di Pula, Pula, Cagliari. Italy
Specimen n.632 |
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Quartz
Smoked XX of quartz, with albite, from the granitic
formations south of Pula
10x10.5cm
Santa Margherita di Pula, Pula, Cagliari. Italy
Specimen n.631 |
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