Corsi Collection of Decorative Stones

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OUMNH number Name and quarry location Geological description
OUMNH number Name and quarry location Geological description
735stone 735 Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Adrano, from Adriano, Sicily, Italy Brecciated yellow jasper, clasts heavily fractured, fracture-fill and matrix are greyish white chalcedony stained yellowish away from clasts. Brown patches on specimen are filler, generally in crystalline quartz-lined cavities.
774stone 774 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Giuliana, from Giuliana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Breccia or red jasper clasts in a white quartz/agate matrix, re-fractured and cemented with colourless crystalline quartz containing scattered inclusions of green chlorite.
738stone 738 Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Giancavallo, from Feudo Giancavallo, near Bisaquino, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Brecciated jasper, clasts mainly yellow, in places altered grey-brown. Matrix of colourless crystalline quartz has some inclusions of iron sulphides on ghost faces. Agate is present as late stage infill within quartz matrix.
761stone 761 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Santa Cristina Gela, from Santa Cristina Gela, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Breccia of yellow-brown jasper clasts cemented by agate, with cavities infilled by colourless quartz crystals. The whole rock has been heavily fractured, and recemented with quartz or with brown to black iron/manganese oxides, which also emanate as dendrites from fractures. A wide vein of granular orange calcite crosses the back of the specimen.
748stone 748 Diaspro della Tolfa, from Monti della Tolfa, near Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy (not confirmed) Colourless fine-grained quartz with bands and scattered inclusions of pyrite. Brown areas are filler/polishing compound. Circular aggregates of quartz crystals visible on side of specimen resemble silicified coral.
741stone 741 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Sicilia, from Sicily, Italy, and most probably from Giancavallo, Bisaquino, Grattieri, or Santa Caterina, all in the province of Palermo. Brecciated jasper (ferruginous compact fine-grained quartz); brown/yellow/green translucent clasts in colourless crystalline quartz matrix. Yellow speckled 'clasts' and brown 'veins' are wax filler.
764stone 764 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Giuliana, from Giuliana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy A fractured banded yellow and green jasper breccia, matrix and fracture fills are part chalcedony part colourless quartz. Microfossils are abundant in bright yellow areas.
767stone 767 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Giuliana, from Giuliana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy A banded brown, yellow and green jasper breccia, matrix and fracture fills are part chalcedony part colourless quartz, fractures also with bands of pyrite. Microfossils are evident in some bright yellow areas.
730stone 730 Agata del San Stefano, from Santo Stefano Quisquina, Agrigento Sicily, Italy; or more probably quarzo di Monterufoli, from Monterufoli, near Pomarance, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy Brecciated agate, colourless crystalline quartz cement with spherular limonitic inclusions. Agate-lined quartz-filled fractures.
732stone 732 Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Monreale, from Monreale, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Brecciated brown jasper with matrix and fracture fills of colourless crystalline quartz.
746stone 746 Sicilian jasper, from Sicily, Italy Brecciated jasper; part red with colourless agate/crystalline quartz matrix, part yellow-brown with colourless crystalline quartz matrix. Later fractures are also filled with colourless quartz.
771stone 771 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Giuliana, from Giuliana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Brecciated red jasper with heavily-fractured agate matrix. Wider fractures are filled with white fine-grained quartz and yellowish carbonate mineral, the latter also present as colourless-yellow zoned rhombohedral crystals in both jasper and agate matrix. Pinkish-brown areas are filler.
747stone 747 Sicilian jasper, from Sicily, Italy Brecciated yellow jasper, heavily fractured, with chalcedony/agate-filled fractures and cement. Orange red 'veins' are artificial filler in open fractures.
759stone 759 Calcedonio di Volterra, Diaspro di Monterufoli, from Monterufoli, near Pomarance, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy Fractured, rounded jaspery clasts, haloes with banded colourless/ferruginous quartz, in a matrix of colourless granular dolomite.
762stone 762 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Misilmeri, from Misilmeri, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Brecciated jasper. Heavily fractured clasts are green or transparent with patchy yellow inclusions. Cement is crystalline quartz and pale green microcrystalline calcite. Dark brown and dark green speckled areas are filler.
736stone 736 Calcedonio di Volterra, Diaspro di Monterufoli, from Monterufoli, near Pomarance, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy Brecciated jasper; relatively unfractured large yellowish clasts, many with halos of yellow goethite banded with cream-coloured microcrystalline quartz. Matrix further away from clasts is colourless-milky agate.
731stone 731 Sicilian jasper, diaspro-agata di Giuliana, from Giuliana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Brecciated brown jasper; agate matrix is patchy with hematitic inclusions in some bands; crystalline quartz fills voids. Buff-coloured areas are filler.
778stone 778 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Giuliana, from Giuliana, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Brecciated jasper. Red hematitic pellitic clasts are brown, goethitic at margins and along fractures, and are surrounded by milky agate. Matrix is creamy white granular/drusy calcite with patchy iron-staining.
756stone 756 Diaspro di Barga, from Barga, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy Milky white chalcedony with aggregates of red hematitic inclusions is cut by a rhombohedral network of fine calcite-filled fractures. Later chalcedony/colourless quartz replaces and is coloured by orange brown siderite. Secondary fractures are more sinuous and random. Dark brown areas are filler/polishing compound.
754stone 754 Calcedonio di Volterra, Diaspro di Monterufoli, from Monterufoli, near Pomarance, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy Off-white chert clasts in a partially silicified, partly calcite or more probably dolomite matrix.
977stone 977 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Sicilia, from Sicily, Italy Brecciated orange-brown jasper with fractured agate matrix. Goethite forms inclusions in matrix and full/partial rims to clasts. Dendritic manganese oxides emanate from clast fractures, crystalline quartz fills smaller voids, microcrystalline calcite the larger ones.
699stone 699 Pudingo delle Alpi, from the Alps Lithic breccia-conglomerate with siliceous clasts.
681stone 681 Pudingo antico, locality unknown Poorly sorted synsedimentary breccia/conglomerate. Red clasts are chert, containing igneous grains.
719stone 719 Jasper, locality unknown This appears to be a largely silicified oolitic ironstone or oolitic ironstone breccia. Swarms of sub-parallel dark brown fractures give the impression of wood grain.
772stone 772 Sicilian jasper, diaspro di San Stefano di Quisquina, from Santo Stefano Quiquina, Bivona, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Silicified limestone breccia with agate/crystalline quartz matrix and filling of fractures. Darker brown areas are filler.
686stone 686 Breccia delle Alpi, from the Alps Poorly sorted quartz/quartzite conglomerate with subsidiary lithic clasts. It is silicified, note clay matrix and quartz veins.
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