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Muscovite from
Ruin del Bo, Cima Pal (Cima di Pal), Castelnuovo Nigra, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy


Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ruin del Bo, Cima Pal (Cima di Pal), Castelnuovo Nigra, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1012205
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1012205:5
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
5.1km (3.2 miles) ⓘColletto di Bossola, Valchiusa, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
8.2km (5.1 miles) ⓘRio Civetto, Valprato Soana, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
9.3km (5.7 miles) ⓘBracco Quarry, Traversella, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
9.3km (5.8 miles) ⓘLas Superiore Quarry, Traversella, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
10.4km (6.5 miles) ⓘAjello 3 gallery, Vico Canavese, Valchiusa, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
11.2km (7.0 miles) ⓘCoesite occurrence, Ribordone, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
12.0km (7.5 miles) ⓘCavallaria Quarries (Frent Quarries; Alpetta; Piani and Rio Freddo Quarries), Cavallaria Mount, Brosso, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
12.2km (7.6 miles) ⓘLe Colme, Brosso, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
13.4km (8.3 miles) ⓘBrosso Mine, Calea, Lessolo, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
13.9km (8.6 miles) ⓘBriasse lode, Tavagnasco Mines, Tavagnasco, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
References
Scaini, G. (1975) La muscovite di Castelnuovo Nigra (Piemonte). Natura, 66, 194
Ivaldi, Gabriella, Ferraris, Giovanni, Curetti, Nadia, Compagnoni, Roberto (2001) Coexisting 3T and 2M1 polytypes of phengite from Cima Pal (Val Savenca, western Alps): Chemical and polytypic zoning and structural characterisation. European Journal of Mineralogy, 13 (6) 1025-1034 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2001/0013-1025
Pavese, Alessandro; Curetti, Nadia; Ferraris, Giovanni; Ivaldi, Gabriella; Russo, Umberto; Ibberson, Richard (2003) Deprotonation and order-disorder reactions as a function of temperature in a phengite 3T (Cima Pal, western Alps) by neutron diffraction and Mossbauer spectroscopy. European Journal of Mineralogy, 15 (2). 357-363 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2003/0015-0357
Piccoli, G.C., Maletto, G., Bosio, P., Lombardo, B. (2007) Minerali del Piemonte e della Valle d'Aosta - Associazione Amici del Museo "F. Eusebio" Alba.
Diego Gatta, G.; Rotiroti, Nicola; Lotti, Paolo; Pavese, Alessandro; Curetti, Nadia (2010) Structural evolution of a 2M1 phengite mica up to 11 GPa: an in situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 37 (8). 581-591 doi:10.1007/s00269-010-0359-2
 
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