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Italy, Toscana, Grosseto prov., other areas
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Gavorrano mine.
One of the old pyrite mines |
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Tetrahedrite
Some XX, edge up to 0.8cm, corroded, with pyrite in small XX
7x7cm
Gavorrano mine, Gavorrano, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.209
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Pyrite
Cubic XX, with octahedron faces, edge up to 2.8 cm
8.5x9cm
Gavorrano mine, Gavorrano, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.1407
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Calcite
Group of balls, up to 4cm wide from an unusual location. There are calcite balls also on the back, as you can see from the other photo.
Calcite is partly covered by small dolomite brilliant XX
10.5x7.5cm
Ribolla, Roccastrada, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.736
2nd photo
3rd photo:
back of piece
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Calcite
From the same finding of above n.736 specimen: rounded formation, up
to 1.5cm wide, resembling the Stilbite bowl formation. The balls sit on
a 1st generation calcite XX carpet
9.5x7cm
Ribolla, Roccastrada, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.734
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Fluorite
Cubic XX up to 0.5cm, dark gray, with some phantoms, on a carbonatic
matrix. Probably it comes from the antimony ore deposit from the "Fosso
la Fuliggine" mine near Catabbio
12x14cm
Semproniano, Grosseto. Toscana. Italy
Specimen n.102
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Gypsum
Floating prismatic elongated X, transparent, yellowish for clay
inclusion
30.5x6.5cm
Roccastrada, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.156
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Kleberlsbergite
Thin XX of klebelsbergite in a cavity of stibnite, 2x0.3 cm
wide
2.7x1cm
Pereta mine, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.476
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Metastibnite
Red encrusting on stibnite XX, with other antimony oxides in
yellow masses (stibiconite?). Some stibnite XX are completely
replaced: it is possible to see the empty cavity in the inner part
of the former stibnite XX. It is a typical sample from this locality
7.5x7cm
Pereta mine, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.93
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Minyulite
Pale green rounded formation, on quartz
5.5x6cm
Pereta mine, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.236
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Stibnite
Thin needles, up to 2cm long, in calcite. It comes from an old
open-pit antimony (with stibnite often immersed in calcite vein), 2km far from the more famous Tafone mine
10x5.5cm
Montauto, Manciano, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.92
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Stibnite
Elongated XX, the longest is 2cm tall, in dissolved calcite
13.5x10cm
Montauto, Manciano, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.1213
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Stibnite
Group of stibnite XX immersed in gray clay. The XX are up to 10 cm long and
2cm wide, unfortunately not terminated. The main X shows a fracture
11x4cm
Montauto, Manciano, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.92
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Stibnite
Big and long X, up to 16cm long, superficially altered in stibiconite
(var of romeite group)
16x7cm
Pereta mine, Scansano, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.1252
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Valentinite
Transparent yellowish needles of valentinite, up to 0.5 long, from this
abandoned Sb mine (locality Fosso del Tafone), with minerals were detected in
slags of ore processing plants
16x7cm
Tafone mine, Manciano, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.1279
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Vesuvianite
Gemmy XX, up to 1cm long
7.5x8cm
Pitigiliano, Grosseto. Italy
Specimen n.1212
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