Salafossa Mine, San Pietro di Cadore, Belluno Province, Veneto, Italy

Melanterite in old gallery of Salafossa Mine, analyzed by Andrea Canal (ICP). Photo and collection Paolo Gasparetto.

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Globular aggregates of hydrozincite

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Limonite pseudomorphous of pyrite. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Limonite pseudomorphous of pyrite. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Kaolinite subgroup beige (right) with hydrozincite white (left). Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

September 2010. Photo by Giovanni and Laura Fraccaro.

© Giovanni Fraccaro

Photo Paolo Gasparetto 2014

© Paolo Gasparetto

Water discharge tunnel at Salafossa Mine, photo Paolo Gasparetto 2013

© Paolo Gasparetto

The Salafossa lead-zinc mine, S. Pietro di Cadore (Belluno), ca. 1966 (closed in 1986). Vintage real photo postcard, published by E. Danieli, S. Stefano di Cadore. The card was sent on 11 April 1968 from Trento to Torino. G. Grundmann collection.

© E. Danieli, S. Stefano di Cadore

View of the Salafossa mining site in 1990

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View of the closed entrance of the mine (1990) with a Saint Barbara icon on the right

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View from inside the mining plants in 1994

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October 2022. Photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

October 2022. Photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

View of the mining plants in 1994

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