| OUMNH Number: |
766
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| Name and quarry location: |
Sicilian jasper, diaspro di San Stefano di Quisquina, from Santo Stefano Quisquina, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
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| Geological description: |
Silicified polymict limestone conglomerate with scattered pyrite and rhombohedral ?dolomite crystals, and some residual fossils. Matrix is part chalcedonic, part colourless quartz. Speckled green areas are filler.
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| Comments: |
Santo Stefano di Bivona is now called Santo Stefano Quisquina, and is near Bivona, Province of Girgenti, Sicily, Italy. Tata (1772) describes a green jasper with some white and other chalcedony patches from a place called 'Portella della Mola in Contrada di S, Stefano detto di Bivona'.
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| References: |
Jervis (1881) 193-318; Jervis (1889) 449-482; Montana & Briuccia (1998); Price (2007) 246-247; Schmidt (2002); Tata (1772) 19-20
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