Pezzotta Federico

About

Federico Pezzotta, mineralogy curator in the period Dec. 1998 -Jan. 2023 at the Natural History Museum of Milan, is now the Scientific Director of the Mineralogy Museum of San Piero in Campo, Elba Island, Tuscany, Italy. He graduated in geological sciences and got a doctorate degree in isotope geochemistry and he was honored in 2003 with the name of the new mineral and new gemstone pezzottaite, from Madagascar. In the period 2013-2018, he was the Chairman of the IMA-Museum Commission, and since March 2019 he is the President of the GML-AIM (Lombardy Mineral Club – Italian Association of Mineralogy). As an expert in mineralogy and petrology of granitic, gem-bearing pegmatites, and gem tourmaline, Federico visited, studied, and performed field and consultant work, in pegmatite fields in Brazil, Italy, Madagascar, Malawi, Myanmar, Nigeria, Ukraine, and Mozambique. As a result of such experience, he produced about 300 publications in international, scientific and popular, magazines.

Employment

• Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Mineralogy Curator
  1998 - 2023

Education

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Publications (7)

• Ferro-bosiite, NaFe3+3(Al4Fe2+2)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
  Mineralogical Magazine 2025 DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2025.10114
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• Different crystallization events of Li-bearing pegmatitic tourmaline from San Piero in Campo, Elba Island, Italy
  Geologica Carpathica 2025 DOI: 10.31577/GeolCarp.2025.18
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• Tourmaline as a petrogenetic indicator highlighted in a multicoloured crystal from the gem deposit of Mavuco, Alto Ligoña pegmatite district, NE Mozambique
  Mineralogical Magazine 2024 DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2024.42
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• Thermal treatment of the tourmaline Fe-rich princivalleite Na(Mn2Al)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O
  Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s00269-023-01250-9
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• Dark-coloured Mn-rich overgrowths in an elbaitic tourmaline crystal from the Rosina pegmatite, San Piero in Campo, Elba Island, Italy: witness of late-stage opening of the geochemical system
  Mineralogical Magazine 2023 DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2022.125
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• Blue growth zones caused by Fe2+ in tourmaline crystals from the San Piero in Campo gem-bearing pegmatites, Elba Island, Italy
  Mineralogical Magazine 2022 DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2022.101
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• Uvite, CaMg3(Al5Mg)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH), a new, but long-anticipated mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup from San Piero in Campo, Elba Island, Italy
  Mineralogical Magazine 2022 DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2022.54
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