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Olenite from
Curiglia, Curiglia con Monteviasco, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy


Locality type:Road Cutting
Classification
Species:Olenite
Formula:NaAl3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3O3(OH)
Formation:Primary
Comments:The mineral previously classified as olenite (Pezzotta & Guastoni, 2006) has been restudied and it is the new species princivalleite (Bosi et al., 2020; Biagioni et al., 2021).
Colour:Blue
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Erroneously Reported
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Olenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Curiglia, Curiglia con Monteviasco, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:360253
Long-form Identifier:1:3:360253:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Pezzotta, Federico (2005) Rubini e zaffiri - Corindoni policromi di Ambarohy, Ihosy, Madagascar. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 30 (2). 116-124
Miyawaki, Ritsuro, Hatert, Frédéric, Pasero, Marco, Mills, Stuart J. (2020) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 58. European Journal of Mineralogy, 32 (6) 645-651 doi:10.5194/ejm-32-645-2020
Biagioni, Cristian, Bosi, Ferdinando, Miyawaki, Ritsuro, and Pasero, Marco (2021) Nuove specie mineralogiche italiane. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 45, 4 (4-2021), 296-300.
 
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