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Psilomelane from
Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Psilomelane' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Psilomelane data
Locality Data:Click here to view Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:415202
Long-form Identifier:1:3:415202:6
GUID (UUID V4):2ae51502-1152-44f8-996c-8d92144cbd2d
Nearest other occurrences of Psilomelane
15.8km (9.8 miles) Santa Lucia Mine, Fluminimaggiore, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
20.9km (13.0 miles) Prameri, Gonnosfanadiga, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
75.7km (47.0 miles) Mt. Grighini, Allai, Oristano Province, Sardinia, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
delle Risorse, Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134-Napoli ITALY boni@unina.it Tel. +39-08125350068 1 ACCEPTED... Belgium – where everything started 5.1.2. SW Sardinia – the small Paris 5.1.3. Poland – could still...Skorpion – Everybody’s dream 32 6.2. Deposits in South-Eastern Peru: those from polymetallic protores 6...Upper Silesia (now Poland) (Fig. 2) and southwest Sardinia (Fig. 3a,b). Several Belgian mining companies...active ED in the field of Zn nonsulfides also in Sardinia, and Belgian metallurgists are still considered
Catalog/List
attention at all times. JULY 1973 1. ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico. Choice well-formed yellowish green...GARNET variety DEMANTOID. Val Malenco,Sondrio, Italy. Well formed sharp apple green crystals richly scattered...gossan. lxl lT • £1- 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to... 8. Li~ht green 2tx2t". £1. AUTUNITE. South Terras Mine, st. Stephens, Cornwall. Light yellowish green...Quartz matrix. 2xlt". £2.50. A?1JRITE. Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, U.S.A. Bright blue cellular mass
Catalog/List
association. 2xlt-xl".£6.5o. 3. ANGLESITE. Monteponi, Iglesias, Sardinia. Fine, lustrous, shaip translucent slightly...Sphalerite. 2tx2~xli". £9.00. ARSENOPYRITE. Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Devon. Choice, silvery grey... 7. 8. 9. -·2- 10. AZURITE. Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, U.S.A. select, bright... 3x2x1-t".· £22.00. 11. BARYTES. Settlingstones Mine, Hexham, Northumberland. Specimen A,- ~hoi~e, lust...2-tx2xl ".£2.50. 12. BEUDANTITE.· Penberthy Crofts Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Sparkling, golden, to pale
Book
with Orbis Publishing Limited abcdefgh Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara Adapted from the original Italian...68, 68 molybdates 55, 63 prehnite /0/, 102 psilomelane 34 puflerite 124 pyrargyrite 17 monazite 65...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States it...Filiform silver. Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) Dendritic copper famous (Michigan) 1822...the Witwatersrand in the Transvaal (South Africa), and indeed South Africa currently produces well over
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Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...powellite 63 prehnite 101, 102 proustite 17, 17 psilomelane 34 puflerite 124 pyrargyrite 17 pyrite 15, 15...59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM All physical bodies in Nature can be...or slightly rotated Vitreous. Like glass 3 THE MINE Class I: native ·elements Chemical elernents found...(Yugoslavia), son1e n1ines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almaden (Spain). In the United States it is
Catalog/List
all times. MARCH 1976 1. ANGLESITE. Monteponi, Iglesias, Sardinia. Select, large, sharp elongated terminated...l~lt". £4.50. 6. 7. -. 8. AZURITE. Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, U.S.A. Bright, sparkling...colourful specimen., 3i;x2txlt". £14.00. AZURITE. TVnagh Mine, Co. Galwav, Eire. Select bright blue small sparkling... 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. -2BARYTES. Hailemoor Mine, Egremont, West Cumberland. Specimen A - Choice...specimen. 3tx2~-x2". £8.00. BARYToCALCITE. Nentsberry Mine, Alston Moor, Cumberland. Fine, sharp, creamy spear-like
Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by |GDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...powellite 63 prehnite /0/, 102 proustite 17, /7 psilomelane 34 puflerite 124 pyrargyrite 17 pyrite 15, 15...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States it is... Filiform silver: Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) endritic copper rmation. Houghton fichigan)...the Witwatersrand in the Transvaal (South Africa), and indeed South Africa currently produces well over
Catalog/List
greenish Chlorite. lixlxl".£3.25. 2. ALASKAITE. Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, Silverton, San Juan Co., Colorado...association. 2txlt". £1.65. 4. G1ESITE. Monteponi, Iglesias, Sardinia. A group of very sharp and well formed...£13. 5. APATITE variety FRM~~OLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, ~ornwall. Snall, translucent, aggregates... ARAGONITE variety TAhNOWITZITE. New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfries. Thick, creamy white, lustrous...Gneissose rock. 3tx2". £4.50. 12. AXINITE. Obira Mine, Oita Prefecture, Japan. Choice, pure mass, of sharp
Book (edition)
aragonite in coral and the dendritic associations of psilomelane. In intrusive igneous rocks and more rarely in...sample of scheelite, coming from Traversella (Turin, Italy), in light natural (above) and exposed Other...that a collector in the field should visit are mine dumps and quarry rubble heaps, where there will...small deposits are found near Pisa and Florence (Italy). Uses Native copper rarely occurs in large enough... lb) was mined. How- been from the Guanajuato mine (Mexico), about 500 billion kilos (460,000,000 tons)
Book (volume)
Spain by F. Vazquez Guzman Portugal by D. Thadeu Italy by P. Zuffardi European part of the U.S.S.R. by...Southwest Europe embraces France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Each volume has an introductory chapter of the...Cordillera Pyreneo-Proven!yal chain Corsica and Sardinia . Mineralization in relation to tectonic evolution...Elisa and Dorinda Barruecopardo Golpejas or Bellita mine Morille-Martinamor El Cubito El Trasqui16n. Santa...Baixo Tejo and Sado Basins Silica sand deposits Italy by P. Zuffardi Introduction Geological setting Stratigraphy
Book (volume)
Lead 101. Copper-pyrites Copper-vitriol Mercury mine 46 crystals 101, nite Cuprite 107. 100. Copper-glance...Chalybite. III. Meteorites. 33. Red-iron-ore). Psilomelane, Copper-ores Dioptase, 15. Iron-ores 31....England. fluor-spar with dull faces; on felspar. Italy. octahedron coloured with fluor-spar Maggiore... granite. on Calcite. Harz, cube (below) Italy. prism with the basal plane. dull. Andreasberg... Maggiore, six-sided a basal and (above) Italy. of Warstein, quartz. The and is Springs,
Journal (issue)
Simmons Fluorapatite from the King Lithia mine, Custer County, South Dakota .. 361 by M. L. Wilson, J. B....Paces and A. P. Ruotsala Departments Notes from Italy by G. Porcellini .................................36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 Italy: Renato Pagano Via S. Anna 1/B I-34074 Monfalcone...Netherlands: W. J. R. Kwak Aalsburg 14-21 TN-6602 Wijchen South Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof...Belsher P .O . Box 636 G olden, CO 80402 303-494-7785 South American Minerals Show s: 322 on, except as noted
Report (issue)
egg, 5.8 and 2.7 cm tall Masua Mine, Carbonia-lglesias, Sardinia, Italy Cal and Kerith Graeber collection...page Smithsonite, 9.2 cm wide 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico Steve...1867. ·thsonian Smithsonite First Oxide Zone, Tsu Mine, Tsumeb, Nami 10cm tall Brent Lockhart coll Joe...curring in the oxidized zone of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, had compositions covering the...reasons for this palette. Beginning on page Antler Mine Smithsonite? Many comprehensive smithsonite collections
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are In Wittwatersrand (South Africa), California and Alaska (USA), Australia, South America and Siberia...is found Include Almaden (Spain), Monte Amlata (Italy), ldrija (Slovenia), Moschellandsberg (Germany)...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...discovered by the Spanish during their conquest of South America In the sixteenth century. Named platina...Norilsk (Russia), Ontario (Canada) and Bushveld (South Africa). It occurs in igneous rocks, associated
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are In Wittwatersrand (South Africa), California and Alaska (USA), Australia, South America and Siberia...is found Include Almaden (Spain), Monte Amlata (Italy), ldrija (Slovenia), Moschellandsberg (Germany)...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...discovered by the Spanish during their conquest of South America In the sixteenth century. Named platina...Norilsk (Russia), Ontario (Canada) and Bushveld (South Africa). It occurs in igneous rocks, associated
Book
illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., 225 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003 All rights reserved....according to their grain 10 limonite, siderite, psilomelane and pyrolusite have originated. Living organisms...fern-like growths, typical of copper, gold and psilomelane; porous, foamy or spongy aggregates are typical...Sicily (Italy). Sulphur of volcanic origin is found in Turkey, Mexico, !ndonesia, Japan, USSR, Italy and
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Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., 225 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003 All rights reserved. No...according to their grain 10 limonite, siderite, psilomelane and pyrolusite have originated. Living organisms...fern-like growths, typical of copper, gold and psilomelane; porous, foamy or spongy aggregates are typical...Sicily (Italy). Sulphur of volcanic origin is found in Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia, Japan, USSR, Italy and...(USA). Perfect crystals have come from Sicily (Italy), (Poland) and (the USA). Individual crystals have
Book
of Milan, Institute of Mineralogy Museum, Milan, italy ^ draga blogojevic, geologist, Trepca, Yugoslavia...Curator, Civic Museum of Natural History, Milan, ITALY ic PAUL desautels, Curator, Smithsonian Institution...townsend, Curator, Geological Museum, Johannesburg, south Africa ^ max wiebel, Professor, Swiss Federal Institute...SYDNEY PIETERS, dealer and collector, Windhoek, south-west Africa ^ karel tucek, Director of Minerals...stood atop the "mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock.
Book
sylvite. Composition. In a few cases, such as psilomelane and limonite, the exact composition of a mineral...Germany; Pribram, Czechoslovakia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; Chanarcillo, Atacama, Chile; and in the states...Right: This silver specimen from Seed. Sarrabus. Sardinia, is called filiform from its threadlike appearance...crystals in Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone at...Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico.
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TOWNSEND, Curator, Geological Museum, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA ¥e MAX WIEBEL, Professor, Swiss Federal Institute...SYDNEY PIETERS, dealer and collector, Windhoek, SOUTH-WEST AFRICA }€ KAREL TUCEK, Director of Minerals...stood atop the “mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(colombianita). Gold-amalgam (Hg 57"4 %) from Colombia, South America, analysed by tI. Schneider in 1848. Comstockite...after Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), liberator of Italy. G e n a r u t t i t e . G. Gagarin and J. R. Cuomo...cubic (3rd List, p. 380) from Genarutta mine, Monteponi, Sardinia. Syn. of nlonteponite (18th List). G e...iodide as minute scarlet cubes from Broken Hill, New South Wales. Described, as distinct from coccinite, by...appearance to pascoite. ~'amed from the locality, Hummer mine, Paradox valley, Montrose Co., Colorado. [M.A. 11189
Book (edition)
veins in albite diorite dykes in the Ready Bullion Mine, Alaska, appear to have been formed in Some of the...contraction-fissures in greenstone, and at the Haile Mine, South Carolina, in joints traversing diorite dykes...placers of the Goroblagodat region Urals and of South- West Oregon have had their origin in rocks of...+ Fe. In New Zealand, on the west coast of the South Island, large masses of peridotites have been intruded...in the alluvium of the River Elvo, in Piedmont, Italy, where it has probably been derived from the nickel-bearing
Book (volume)
and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...5, for Black Forest read Odenwald. for Rhine Province read Westphalia. for in the Tirol read, Salzburg...AX3 Type, bottom line, for 625 Psilomelane read 633 635 618 Psilomelane {belongs in AX2 type). in Ref...read Ca4Al2(OH)i4 5H2O. • for 625 Psilomelane read 618 Psilomelane. 668 673 bottom 691 5, in the...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman
Book (edition)
veins in albite diorite dykes in the Ready Bullion Mine, Alaska, appear to have been formed in Some of the...contraction-fissures in greenstone, and at the Haile Mine, South Carolina, in joints traversing diorite dykes...placers of the Goroblagodat region Urals and of South-West Oregon have had their origin in rocks of this...+ Fe. In New Zealand, on the west coast of the South Island, large masses of peridotites have been intruded...in the alluvium of the River Elvo, in Piedmont, Italy, where it has probably been derived from the nickel-bearing
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...from [the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by F. Olmi, C. Sabelli & G. Brizzi) 19:305-310...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALBERTINI, CLAUDIO Famous mineral localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario:...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE
 
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