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Funtana Raminosa Mine, Gadoni, Nuoro Province, Sardinia, Italy

Miniera di Funtana Raminosa, Gadoni, Nuoro, Sardegna, Italia

In this mining area, at occurrences named Su Fruscu (at 550 m above sea level) and San Giuseppe there were made explorative tunnels to verify the consistence of mineralizations.

This area has been very important for copper minerals probably since the Bronze Age. In fact, at the end of 1800 there were discovered the traces of very old extractive and mining activity which it was dated at Nuragic Age (Bronze Age) (Begemann et al., 2001).
These copper occurrences were surely mined also around 700 BC during Arabian Occupation of Southern Italy. In this period the Arabic conquerors (known as Saraceni) used these mines and the name of the river which crosses the mining area (Saraxinus River) is a proof of that (Saraxinus River means Saraceni River).

Actually is a geo-park and some little part of site mine is open to public visit.
For public visit and some other information about Funtana Raminosa geo-park, visit the web site http://www.igeaspa.it. [Link dead. Sep 2011]

References

- Dessau, G. (1937): Studi sulla miniera di Fontana Raminosa (Sardegna). Periodico di Mineralogia, 8, 177-215.
- Ogniben, G. & De Pieri, R. (1967): I minerali di alterazione di Su Fruscu (Giacimento di Funtana Raminosa, Sardegna). Periodico di Mineralogia, 36, 659-682.
- Frau, F., Rizzo, R., Sabelli, C. (1998): Creedite from Sardinia, Italy: the first European occurrence. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1998, 495–504.
- Stara, P., Rizzo, R., Sabelli, C., Ibba, A. (1999): I minerali di Funtana Raminosa. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 1/1999, 10-27.
- Friedrich Begemann, Sigrid Schmitt-Strecker and Fulvia Lo Schiavo (2001): Chemical composition and lead isotopy of copper and bronze from Nuragic Sardinia. European Journal of Archaeology 4, xx-xx.
- Guida ai minerali Gruppo editoriale Fabbri I° ed. 1973 rist. 1985




Mineral List

Allophane
Andradite
Anglesite
'Apatite'
Aurichalcite
Azurite
Baryte
Berthierine ?
Berthierite
Bornite
Brochantite
Calcite
Carbonatecyanotrichite
Cerussite
Chalcanthite
Chalcoalumite
Chalcopyrite
Clinochlore
Clinozoisite
Connellite
Copper
Coronadite
Covellite
Creedite
Cubanite
Cuprite
Diopside
Dypingite ?
Epidote
Fluorite
Galena
Gonyerite ?
Greenockite
Grossular
Gypsum
Halloysite
Hawleyite
Hematite
Hemimorphite
Kaolinite
Limonite
Linarite
Mackinawite
Maghemite
Magnetite
Malachite
Minnesotaite
Pickeringite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Rosasite
Serpierite
Smithsonite
Spangolite
Sphalerite
Sulphur
Talc
Trevorite ?
Vesuvianite
Woodwardite
Wulfenite


62 entries listed. 59 valid minerals.

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