Campiano Mine, Montieri, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy

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Campiano Mine, Montieri, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy

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Miniera di Campiano, Montieri, Grosseto, Toscana, Italia

This area (Campiano) is located at the northern side of Boccheggiano and it was thought to dig this new Fe-Cu rich area around 1975. The mine started officially in 1983 and it has been one of the most important and modern.

Actually (2003) this mine is closed.

References:
-Montedison s.p.a., 1971. Un nuovo ritrovamento di pirite nella Maremma Toscana. Il giacimento di Campiano, presso Boccheggiano. L'Ind. Min., 1: 1-3.
-Mining Annual Review(1985):499. A pyrite mine started about 1984 and owned by Solmine. Produced 426,000 tons of ore (1984).
-Facchinelli A., Gigli P., Masotti A., 1986. Nuovi dati e considerazioni sul giacimento a pirite e solfuri misti di Campiano (Grosseto). Rend. Soc. Ital. Mineral. Petrol., 41: 405.
-Masotti A., Favilli G., 1987. Il giacimento di Campiano. L'Ind. Min., 4: 27-38.
-Favilli G., Masotti A., 1988. Gli scavi nella miniera di Campiano. L'Ind. Min., 9: 1-20.
-Brizzi G., Masotti A., 1989. Campiano: un vanto d'Italia. La miniera e i suoi minerali. Riv. Miner. Ital., 12: 1-20.
-Corsini F., Morelli F., Tanelli G., 1991. A polymetallic sulfide (Cu-Pb-Zn) assemblage from the Boccheggiano-Campiano (Tuscany) deposit: application of the stannite-sphalerite geothermometer. N. Jb. Mineral. Mh: 523-528.
-Berni S., 1994. Il gesso di Campiano (GR). Riv. Miner. Ital., 18: 171.
-Martarelli L., Ferrini V., Masi U. (1995) - Trace-element evidence for the genesis of the pyrite vein deposit of Campiano (southern Tuscany, Italy). Periodico di Mineralogia, 64: 349-366.

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