My collection
- Alpine minerals
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Native gold
on quartz – Mine Fenillaz – Val d’Ayas – Val
d’Aosta – Italy. Size 10x6x5 cm. Incredible dendritic gold on a group of quartz
crystals from this old mine closed in 1912. |
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Pyrite
– Punta Rousse – Picc.S.Bernardo – Val d’Aosta - Italy. Size 15x10x9
cm. Group of octaedric limonitized XXs with max. size 10 mm. on matrix. |
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Smokey quartz
– Oropa – Valle di Oropa - Piemonte - Italy. Size 8x8x6 cm. Group of smokey XXs
with max. size 40 mm. on matrix. Uncommon locality. |
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Beryl
– Craveggia – Val Vigezzo - Piemonte. Size 7x4x4 cm. Big single giant XX of 70
mm. without matrix. |
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Fluorite
– Schrammacher – Passo di Vizze – Alto Adige - Italy. Size 13x10x4 cm.
Group of green octaedric XXs with max. size 22 mm. covered with white calcedhony. |
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Calcite on
epidote – M.Rosa – Val d’Aosta – Italy. Size 7x7x5
cm. Big round white XX of 50 mm. on a carpet of olive green small XXs of epidote. |
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Perovskite with magnetite – Rocca Sella – Val di
Susa – Piemonte - Italy. Size 11x8x3. Group of brown cubic perovskite crystals with
max. size 8 mm. with black magnetite crystals on serpentino matrix. |
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Prehnite
– M.Barbeston – Val d’Aosta – Italy. Size 13x9x5 cm. Exceptional group
of light green XXs with max. size 10 mm. on serpentino matrix. |
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Quartz
– Arbaz – Val d’Ayas – Valle d’Aosta - Italy. Size 12x11x10 cm.
Incredible group of biterminated XXs with max. size 65 mm. covered with yellow iron’s
oxydes. |
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Quartz var. amethyst – M.Argentera – Valle
Gesso – Piemonte - Italy. Size 27x24x9. Giant specimen with clusters of violet
crystals with max. size 30 mm. on matrix. The tips are darker than the body of the
crystals. Very rare in the alpine region. |
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Apatite on
adularia – Quarry Antillone – Val Formazza – Piemonte -
Italy. Size 5x4x3 cm. Cluster of light violet prismatic apatite XXs with max. size 8 mm.
on adularia XXs covered with green chlorite. |
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