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[Matteo_Chinellato]

for 4 days I have visit with friend and collector Franco Granai all the principal Carrara marble quarries. For who want seen the reportage go to look in my Flickr page under the name ChinellatoPhoto, I not have well understand how to put links here.

[Jordi Fabre]

[Matteo_Chinellato]

ah ok, thanks

[Antonio Alcaide]

Superb shots!! Matteo. Thanks!! Especially the B&W ones. Memories from another time, when the South of Europe was richer :-)

The quarry overview and the pictures of the workers remind me of The Fountainhead, where Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), the main character, meets his lover (unforgettable Patricia Neal) at a grey granite quarry of Connecticut. Great film and novel.

Regards

[GneissWare]

Matteo:
Very interesting and beautiful photos of the quarries and the Ponti di Vara.
Bob

[Matteo_Chinellato]

In Youtube I have put the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIBtGezpkCw&list=UUywiGp8ixJ9AVZypB7jZR5g&index=3&feature=plcp
(link normalized by FMF)

[h.abbasi]

Thank you for sharing.
Did you find any crystal, too?
Greetings from Iran

[Matteo_Chinellato]

Some Pyrite, micro Galena and Calcite crystals, some put on my mindat page, but I am go only for photos, next time I go for research

[h.abbasi]

OK,
Congratulations, you are very expert in photography .
I'm interested in the Lavendulan photo:
https://www.mindat.org/photo-377921.html
Thanks again.

[Matteo_Chinellato]

it's my work

[Riccardo Modanesi]

HI to everybody!
As Matteo knows well, also sphalerite, sulphur, fluorite, azurite and many other minerals are not so uncommon to find in the white marbles of Carrara! I was more than once in the Fantiscritti quarry, in the La Piastra quarry and in the La Facciata quarry and found many interesting crystals!
Greetings from Italy by Riccardo.