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Le Cetine di Cotorniano Mine (Le Cetine Mine; Cetine Mine; Rosia), Chiusdino, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy

Latitude: 43°15'N
Longitude: 11°12'E
Miniera di Le Cetine di Cotorniano (Le Cetine; Rosia), Chiusdino, Siena, Toscana, Italia

Old antimony mine, closed in 1948 (works ended in 1943-1945), located 4 km WSW of Rosia (but in the municipality of Chiusdino) along the national road #73.
Mineralization in brecciated dolomitic limestones developed in Triassic evaporitic deposits ("Calcare Cavernoso"), which has been silicified by hydrothermal fluids circulating in the fault system. These fluids deposited the stibnite mineralization.

Famous for rich stibnite specimens.

References

- Artini E., 1894. Appunti di mineralogia italiana: antimonite delle Cetine. Atti R. Accad. Naz. Lincei, Rend., 3: 416-419.
- Manasse, E. (1911). Sopra alcuni minerali della Toscana. Millerite delle Cetine (Siena). Atti Società Toscana Scienze Naturali, Memorie, 27: 76-92
- Manasse E. (1914) - Le ricchezze minerarie del territorio Senese - Atti soc. It. progr. scienze, VII riunione, Siena
- Belluomini G., Fornasieri M, Nicoletti M., 1968. Onoratoite, a new antimony oxichloride from Cetine di Cotorniano, Rosia, (Siena). Mineral. Mag., 36: 1037-1044.
- VV. AA. (1971) - La Toscana Meridionale - Rend. soc. It. Min. Petr., vol. XXVII, fasc. speciale, Milano
- De Michele V. (1974) - Guida Mineralogica D'Italia - Ed. Ist. Geogr. De.Agostini., Novara
- Bertelli L., 1975. La metavoltina delle Cetine di Cotorniano. Notiz. Gr. Mineral. Fiorent., II, 2: 11-13.
- Brizzi G., 1976. Ipotesi sopra un minerale secondario della miniera antimonifera delle Cetine. Notiz. Gr. Mineral. Fiorent., III, 2: 8-9.
- Borselli G., Innocenti E., Rossellini A., 1978. Ancora un raro minerale alle Cetine - la Romerite. Notiz. Gr. Mineral. Fiorent., V, 4: 15-16
- Scortecci, P.B. (1980). I minerali delle Cetine di Cotorniano. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 4 (1): 10-15.
- Sabelli C. (1984) - I minerali delle Cetine di Cotorniano (SI); I solfati dimorfi jurbanite e rostite. Periodico di Mineralogia, Vol. 53, pp. 53-65.
- Sabelli, C., & Brizzi, G. (1984). Alteration minerals of the Cetine mine, Tuscany, Italy. Mineralogical Record, 15: 27-36.
- Brizzi G., Ciselli I, Santucci A. (1985) - Le Cetine di Cotorniano: storia e mineralogia - Riv. Miner. Ital., 9(1): 1-12; 9(2): 55-64; 9(3): 89-99.
- Brizzi G., Ciselli I, Santucci A. (1986) - Ultime novità da le Cetine di Cotorniano - Riv. Miner. Ital., 10(3): 145-155.
- Brizzi, G., Ciselli, I., & Santucci, A. (1988). Cetineite ed altre novità delle Cetine di Cotorniano (SI). Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 12 (1): 1-20
- Preite, D. (1992): Le Cetine, Pereta und Poggio Peloso: Beruhmte antimonerz-Minen der Toskana. Lapis, 17(6), 17-25.
- Basso R., Lucchetti G., Zefiro L., Palenzona, A. (1996): Rosiaite, PbSb2O6, a new mineral from the Cetine mine, Siena, Italy. Eur. J. Miner., 8: 478-492.
- Palenzona A., Pierini G., Prandoni P. G. (1998): Una nuova specie dalle Cetine di Cotorniano, Siena: clinocervantite. Riv. Mineral. Ital., 22, 4: 55-56


Mineral List

Aluminocopiapite
Alum-(K)
Alunogen
Azurite
Brizziite (TL)
Calcite
Celestine
Cervantite
Cetineite (TL)
Chalcostibite
Cinnabar
Clinocervantite
Copiapite
Coquandite
Dolomite
Elpasolite
Epsomite
Ferrinatrite
Fibroferrite
Fluorite
Gaylussite
Gibbsite
Gold
Gypsum
Halotrichite
Hexahydrite
Jarosite
Jurbanite
Khademite
Klebelsbergite
Malachite
Marcasite
Melanterite
Metastibnite
Metavoltine
Millerite
Mirabilite
Mopungite
Onoratoite (TL)
Oxyplumboroméite
Peretaite
Pharmacosiderite
Pickeringite
Plagionite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Ralstonite
Realgar
Roméite Group
var: Stibiconite

Römerite
Rosenbergite (TL)
Rosiaite
Rostite
Rozenite
Scorodite
Sénarmontite
Siderite
Sideronatrite
Stibnite
Sulphur
var: Selenian Sulphur
Tamarugite
Tripuhyite
Tschermigite
Uklonskovite
Valentinite


67 entries listed. 65 valid minerals. 4 type localities (valid minerals).

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