Radis Alp Mine, Ala di Stura, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italyi

Regional Level Types
Radis Alp Mine	Mine
Ala di Stura	Commune
Metropolitan City of Turin	Metropolitan City
Piedmont	Region
Italy	- not defined -

Radis Alp Mine, Ala Valley, Lanzo Valleys, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Radis Alp Mine, Lanzo Valleys, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Old iron mine at an elevation of about 2350 m in the upper part of Lusignetto valley, at the foot of Monte Rosso d’Ala, above Alpe Radis. Mining operations were performed from 1823 to 1869; the iron ore was transported by sled to Ala di Stura and processed in a foundry, known as “La Fabbrica” or “Le Vote”. Although various prospecting permits had been recorded during the XX century, mining operations restarted no more.
The iron mineralisation is included in a serpentinised tectonic peridotite at the contact between ultrabasites and metagabbros. It appears to derive from the transformation of stratiform chromitite bodies (Rossetti, 2000) and is made up of a banded sequence: the main magnetite body in gangue of chlorite ± diopside; a partly serpentinised peridotite rich in forsterite; a magnetite layer in chlorite gangue passing to garnet-, perovskite-, magnetite-bearing chlorite schist. Cr-free neoblastic magnetite, which surrounds microscopic relics of chromite, and abundant uvarovite, as chromite replacement product, among the magnetite layers are the distinctive features of this mineralisation.

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