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Aneva creek, Pietracolora (Pietra Colora), Gaggio Montano, Metropolitan City of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italyi
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Aneva creekCreek
Pietracolora (Pietra Colora)Hamlet
Gaggio MontanoCommune
Metropolitan City of BolognaMetropolitan City
Emilia-RomagnaRegion
ItalyCountry

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
44° 14' 57'' North , 10° 59' 18'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Pietracolora202 (2014)0.3km
Castel d'Aiano581 (2014)3.3km
Bombiana118 (2014)4.0km
Montese1,357 (2014)4.1km
Marano569 (2014)4.5km
Mindat Locality ID:
255232
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:255232:6
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Name(s) in local language(s):
Torrente Aneva, Pietracolora (Pietra Colora), Gaggio Montano, Valle del Reno, Provincia di Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italia


Pietracolora, a hamlet of about 200 people, is located at an altitude of 840 m a.s.l. This area was inhabited since the earliest times. Up to the end of the 1980s, it was easy enough to find, scattered on the Aneva creek bed, some pieces of petrified wood. I myself (Roberto Bosi), in the 1970s, found some nice samples. The only mention I have found for these discoveries is due the mineralogist Luigi Bombicci (1833-1903), who brought great prestige to the mineralogy of the Bologna Province. In fact, he described four specimens from Piertacolora (at that time it was spelled Pietra Colora) preserved in the Mineralogical Museum of Bologna University (Bombicci, 1873).

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2 valid minerals.

List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
ⓘQuartz4.DA.05SiO2
Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates
ⓘDolomite5.AB.10CaMg(CO3)2
Unclassified
ⓘ'Petrified Wood'-

List of minerals for each chemical element

CCarbon
Cⓘ DolomiteCaMg(CO3)2
OOxygen
Oⓘ DolomiteCaMg(CO3)2
Oⓘ QuartzSiO2
MgMagnesium
Mgⓘ DolomiteCaMg(CO3)2
SiSilicon
Siⓘ QuartzSiO2
CaCalcium
Caⓘ DolomiteCaMg(CO3)2

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