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Argentiera della Nurra Mine, Porto Torres, Sassari Province, Sardinia, Italy

Started before 1902.

Syngenetic submarine exhalative mineralization (Ni-Co-As-Sb-Fe-Pb)and late Hercynian Pb-Zn-Ag-Sb veins cutting Paleozoic basement.
A stratiform subparagenesis (williamite, galena, jamesonite, pyrite, marcasite, ullmannite) exists in the basement, in connection with Silurian graphite-siderite-phyllite black shale formations.

Refs.:
Dana 6:A2:19
I. Venerandi Pierri, Eur. Journ. Mineral. , 1992, 4, 395-397.
Orlandi, P., & Gelosa, M. (2007). Argentiera della Nurra. I minerali di alterazione della miniera di sfalerite e galena argentifera. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 31 (1), 22-31.





Mineral List:
  		•  Anglesite
  		• Aurichalcite
  		• Azurite
  		• Baryte
  		• Bindheimite
  		• Bournonite
  		• Caledonite
  		• Cerussite
  		• Fraipontite
  		• Galena
  		• 'Garnet Group'
  		• Goethite
  		• Hemimorphite
  		• Jamesonite
  		• Leadhillite
  		• Linarite
  		• Malachite
  		• Marcasite
  		• Paratacamite
  		• Phosgenite
  		• Pyrite
  		• Pyromorphite
  		• Quartz
  		• Ramsbeckite
  		• Siderite
  		• Smithsonite
  		• Sphalerite
  		• Stibnite
  		• Sulphur
  		• Tetrahedrite
  		• Ullmannite
  		• Valentinite
  		• Willyamite


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