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Trentino-Alto Adige

Fassa - Monzoni / Val San Nicolo, Trentino

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: Fassaite (Al-diopside), vesuvianite, spinel, magnetite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Triassic contact-metamorphic (monzonite)

Classic skarn/contact locality of the Dolomites.

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