| OUMNH Number: |
769
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| Name and quarry location: |
Sicilian jasper, diaspro di Piano Maglio, from Piano Maglio, Altofonte, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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| Geological description: |
Heavily fractured banded jasper with rhombohedral carbonate mineral inclusions (dolomite/siderite?). Fractures are filled with grey agate, in turn filled with colourless quartz. Fine calcite or ankerite veins cross the specimen.
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| Comments: |
Piano dei Magli is a locality referred to by Borch, according to Montana (1998). Tata (1772) also cites this locality for jasper, and says it is near Parco, a locality close to Monreale. It is now called Piano Maglio and is part of the commune of Altofonte (formerly called Parco, or Parcu in Sicilian).
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| References: |
Jervis (1881) 193-318; Jervis (1889) 449-482; Montana & Briuccia (1998) 33, 76-77; Price (2007) 246-247; Schmidt (2002); Tata (1772) 25
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