Italy, Toscana, Livorno prov., other areas


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Gypsum (selenite)
XX up to 8cm long, dark for carboniosus inclusions. It is a typical sample from this place, where gypsum XX are grown on rusted pieces of the big iron pipelines of stream of a local chemical industry
6x11cm
Rosignano Marittimo, Livorno. Italy
Specimen n.574

 

Melanophlogite
Colorless vitreous spheres up to 0.3 cm on carbonatic rocks Mg rich. From this locality (the mineral is localized in a magnesite occurrence) also cubes comes, but more uncommonly
7x3cm
Fortullino, Rosignano Marittimo, Livorno. Italy
Specimen n.238

 

 

Sphalerite
Brown XX of sphalerite, up 1 cm wide, semitransparent. The XX are posted on quartz XX; they came from a locality with mineralized vugs in quartz veins
6x9cm
Campo di Sasso, Bibbona, Livorno. Italy
Specimen n.1306


 

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