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Cuprite from
San Giovanni Mine, Bindua, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view San Giovanni Mine, Bindua, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:407603
Long-form Identifier:1:3:407603:2
GUID (UUID V4):1e350a06-f5f1-49d1-a971-58e7a7f38c30
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprite
4.4km (2.7 miles) San Giovanneddu Mine (S'Ega Porceddu), Gonnesa, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
10.6km (6.6 miles) Reigraxius Mine, Domusnovas, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
10.6km (6.6 miles) Malacalzetta Mine, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
12.4km (7.7 miles) Sa Duchessa Mine, Domusnovas, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
12.8km (7.9 miles) Is Murvonis Mine, Domusnovas, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
12.8km (8.0 miles) Tiny-Arenas Mine, Fluminimaggiore, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
14.2km (8.8 miles) Perda Niedda Mine, Domusnovas, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
14.3km (8.9 miles) Monte Guisi Mine, Domusnovas, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
17.0km (10.6 miles) Perdas de Fogu Mine (Perd'e Fogu Mine), Fluminimaggiore, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
17.5km (10.9 miles) Santa Lucia Mine, Fluminimaggiore, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
Schist. 3tx2". £13. 5. ANGLESITE. San Giovanni, Iglesias, Sardinia. Lustrous, sharp, glassy, doubly terminated...£13;50. 6. APATITE variety FRANCOLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, TYwardreath, Covnwall. Small, bright, creamy hexagonal...white Quartz. 2i" x 3". £10. BARYTES. Force Crag Mine, Nr. Keswick, Cumberland. An attractive intergro~n...2" on edge. 3x3~_ll.£6. 50. BARYTES. Ale & Cakes Mine, Gwennap, ~ornwall. Unusual, greyish green ~lusters...£6.50. BARYTI)~~ITE. Admiralty Flats, Nentsberry Mine, Nr. Alston, Cumberland. Large, spear-shaped crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
other exotic oxidized zone in an as-yet-undeveloped mine. For now, however, Tsumeb holds top honors for the...name leadhillite in 1832, establishing the Susanna mine, Leadhills, as the type locality (Dana 1896). There...Figure 1. Leadhillite, 6.7 cm high, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Formerly in the Houston Museum...pseudomorphing leadhillite crystals to 5 mm, from the Susanna mine, Leadhills, Scotland. This is the underside of the...maxite was applied to leadhillite found in Sardinia, Italy. An excellent discussion of the full characterization
Catalog/List
Genthelvite. 2tx2t". £4.32. ANAPAITE. San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo, Italy. Small, Very lustrous,greyish green...lustrous £1.08. Itxl~". /. -2- BORNITE. Dolcoath Mine, ~mborne, ~orn\~ll. Very rich, irridescently tarnished...sPHALEEITE crystals. 3x2t". £17.28. 12. CALCITE. Stank Mine, Ulverston, N.1ancs. Specimen A - A superb, plate...inclusions of Hematite. Itxlt". £3.24. CALCITE. Blackdene Mine, Weardale, Co. Durham. Large, milky white, well... 6x4". £2.16. 14. CARMINITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, reddish crystaline
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
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...Mineralogical Research Co., 704 Charcot Avenue, San Jose, CA 95131. A list of other dealers in back issues
Catalog/List
OH Ix! £3 lx2 £6 2x2 £10 34 ■ ANDRADITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn Wales Pale beige fine grained mass with reddish...serpentine. Ix! £5 lx2 £10 38 BANALSITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn Wales Rich brown mass with approx 5 % Cymrite...£15 2x2 £30 Ba Na Al SiO 22 BANNISTERITE Benallt Mine. Lleyn, Wales Dark brown veinlets throughtout calcite/...Ix½ £7 CuSe 73 ■ BRAUNITE Praboma Mine, St Marcel ,Piedmont, Italy Dark grey massive with quartz or red...FLUORESCENCE Long wave Jxl £4 442 ■■ CARYOPILITE Bemallt Mine, Lleyn Wales thin felty brown vens in Calcite Mn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Study from the Variscan Rosas Shear Zone (SW Sardinia, Italy) Fabrizio Cocco * , Antonio Attardi, Matteo...554 Bivio per Sestu, Monserrato, 09042 Cagliari, Italy; antatt94@gmail.com (A.A.); deiddam.geo@gmail.com...Study from the Variscan Rosas Shear Zone (SW Sardinia, Italy). Minerals 2022, 12, 272. https://doi.org/10...Shear zone (RSZ), in the Sulcis subregion of SW Sardinia, which is considered as a key area in the definition...at the crustal brittle–ductile transition in the south Variscan Sardinian chain [16], but it is also relevant
Book
(Federal Republic of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland...comparative ethnology include areas of North and South America and of Polynesia for comparison. The Museum...Senarmontite Cassiterite Cassiterite Manganite Scheelite South Africa St Andreasberg, Harz, FRG Shikoku, Japan...Saxony, GDR llfeld, Harz, GDR Rio Marina, Elba, Italy Schneeberg, Saxony, GD R Wolfsberg, Harz, GDR Freiberg...Vllb Morawicza (Ocna defier), Banat, Romania Vllb San Benito Co., California, USA Vllb Altyn Tyube, Kirgizia
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interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves... gersdorffite, ULLMANNITE NiSbS Monte Narba, Sardinia smaltite, galena silverwhite, steel-grey metallic...of Specimen AMMONIUM CHLORIDE NH,Cl Vesuvius, Italy nodular, compact, earthy, scaly in clays, marls...ore veins, vitreous, pearly transluc. alunite Italy fibrous, acicular, capillary crystals, & agg. ...HYDROZINCITE Zn[(OH)3COs;]. (Zinc Bloom) San Giovanni Mine, Laorca, Sardinia eliminated from soda lakes, in clays
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Rigby Limited 30 North Terrace, Kent Town Adelaide, South Australia 5067 Printed in Czechoslovakia by Svoboda...interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...smaltite, galena ULLMANNITE NiSbS Monte Narba, Sardinia metallic opaque 5 5.5 5.6- 6.2 very good brittle...volcanoes AMMON II M CHLORIDE Nil ,CI Vesuvius, Italy nodular, compact, earthy, scaly monoclinic in...ALUNOGEN AI.JSOJ,. 18H.O .Kcramohalitc) Bolzano, Italy good watersoluble fibrous, acicular, capillary
Catalog/List
2x2£15 ½"£5 1"£7 ANALCIME Orallhagcn, near Larvik South Norway Ojuela Mme, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE 1 0 98...lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal..._lx2_ _80 _ _____ _,o 1129 ALMANDINE Braslad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Unknown location I 1 63 □a...-----------------�--------ANDESINE Epteland, Evje-lveland area, South Norway Boulouris, St Raphael, France ALMANDINE 11
Catalog/List
ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South Norway Rich fine grained...- -1111 ALMANDINE Epteland, Evje-lveland area, South Norway 164 BERYL Kolsva, Vastmanland Sweden Rich...ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway 1086 CALCITE Landsverk, Evje, South Norway Unusual rich yellow...··•··· --- -- . 168 ANORTHOCLASE Ula, near Larvik, South Norway 129 CHROMITE Kemi Finland Feldspar group...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden
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...district Aznalc6llar . Sotiel . Rio Tinto mines. San Telma . Lomero-Poyatos. Maria Luisa Mines of the...district . Silver . Tin and tungsten Penouta . Laza. San Finx. Santa Camba . Monte Neme . Casualidad-Calabor
Book (edition)
transparent if sliced into thin scales (e.g., cinnabar, cuprite). Minerals with a nonmetallic luster show various...dioptase (green), sulfur and orpiment (yellow), cuprite and cinnabar (red). Others are allochromatic: this...sample of scheelite, coming from Traversella (Turin, Italy), in light natural (above) and exposed Other...place in which a mineral was discovered (benitoite, San Benito County, California), or dedicated to a scholar...azurite, cerussite, smithsonite), a few oxides (cuprite) and certain native elements (gold, silver, copper)
Report (issue)
with quartz and a/bite from the Rosina pegmatite in San Piero di Campo Collection Federico Pezzotta Photo...high fi-om the Vallone workings in the Rio Marina mine Collection Walter Giannini Photo Franco Valoti ...Pezzotta Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milan, Italy with Contributions by Christina Denison, Andrea... Renato Pagano Gloria Staebler, and Tom Wilson San Piero: A Mineralogical Paradise Several of Elba's...are not far from the tiny picturesque village of San Piero in Campo. Situated on the southeastern edge
Book
MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm...collectively as zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS:...10 ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and 3.06 ct leaves...for cutting other minerals. Tale, Mpumalanga, South Africa * 19 x 6 x 83cm Hardness 1 Hardness 4 ...Hardness 10 Quartz Diamond Diamond, Kimberley, South Africa * 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm | 19 MINERALS: PRODUCTS
Catalog/List
directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years... 52001 HEMATITE Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy If there was ever a specimen that simultaneously...SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile Terry Szenics...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume...MANGANOCALCITE Pachapaqui District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru It is difficult to believe
Journal (issue)
Quando lui fu studente di istruzione superiore a San Pietroburgo, fu espulso dopo essersi ammalato di...Heidelberg e Karlsruhe. Tornato senza incarico a San Pietroburgo, si impegnò a scrivere un magistrale...fluorite, uranite, spinelli, granati, leucite, cuprite, blenda, pirite, ullmannite. Gruppo dimetrico:...CLASSE PENTAGONOICOSITETRAEDRICA (432) o della cuprite 3 assi 4, 4 assi 3, 6 assi 2 - icositetraedro pentagonale:...esacisottaedrica) Granato (cl. esacisottaedrica) Cuprite (cl. icositetraedro pentagonale) Pirite (classe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Bologna, via degli Ariani 1, 48121 Ravenna, Italy; mariangela.vandini@unibo.it * Correspondence: sara...be observed, both in the Levantine area and in Italy. Italian mosaics seemed to dominate the 12th and...Sicily. Eleven more records were documented for Italy in the 14th century, but only two were recorded...were from the Monastic Complex of San Severo in Classe, Ravenna, Italy, 6th–10th century assemblage [21];...assemblage; and the Basilica of Saint Peter, Rome, Italy, 16th century assemblage [26]. According to compositional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(M2ADL), via Tombesi dall’Ova, 55, 48100 Ravenna, Italy *Corresponding author, e-mail: rocco.mazzeo@unibo...Colleoni by Andrea del Verrocchio (1496 A.D.),Venice, Italy: details of the horse head and drawings indicating...cast in 1496 and is located in Venice, at Campo San Giovanni e Paolo. Samples were collected before the starting...of Bartolomeo Colleoni, Venice (Italy) Bronze vessel, Verucchio (Italy) Two alloy samples (MC1bis and...in 1984 at the archaeological site of Verucchio (Italy). It was found inside Experimental and analytical
Book (volume)
of Mineral Deposits in Europe PART 2 Western and South Central Europe JOHN DREW RIDGE Past President...USSR in both Europe and Asia—pt 2. Western and South Central Europe. 1. Bibliography—Bibliography—Ore-deposits—Europe...of mineral deposits in Europe. Pt 2: Western and South Central Europe 1. Europe. Mineral deposits—Bibliographies...to try to list all of the mining geologists and mine managers who made these visits possible and who...obtain a real understanding of all the Western and South-Central European ore deposits discussed in this
Book (volume)
crystals from Humboldt County. From Borax Lake, San Bernardino County, California. In the Permian basin...quantities, at numerous localities in France, Spain, Italy, and England. Found in large amounts at many places...notable amounts in the Broken Hill district. New South Wales (bromian pt.). In the United States, cerargyrite...Rand district and in the Calico and Barstow mines, San Bernardino County, California. A mass of cerargyrite...Silver City district, Owyhee County, Idaho, Poorman mine, where masses weighing many pounds were especially
Book
it a veritable not just a picof informa- is mine tion, telling everything the collector needs to...Maria Gramaccioli. Matteo Boscardin. published in Italy in 1973 by Fratelli New Fabbri Editori. material...with its superb color States, illustrations in Italy in the lan- proved to be so well related to the...mineral collecting has become widespread here in Italy, as well as in the rest of Europe and America. Whether...southeast of Aosta in the extreme northwest part of Italy. 1 EQUIPMENT AND PREPARATION FOR THE HUNT It
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del Giovetto, in piccole tracce con malachite e cuprite. 14 ZOLFO Simbolo chimico S Si presenta in forme...in rocce metamorfiche con quarzo e albite. VALLE SAN MARTINO:a Caprino Bergamasco, compatta, in massi...in associazione ad artinite ed idromagnesite. CUPRITE Ossido di rame Cu/ 10 Si rinviene generalmente...Valsorda, Val Rossa. Coll. e foto G. Fretti. CUPRITE- Cristallo ottaedrico di 0,4 mm, di colore rosso...si presente in massecolloidali biancastre. VALLE SAN MARTINO: in sottili venette, nel diaspro di Burligo
Book (edition)
MINE andtheir LOCALITIES JAN H. BERNARD AND JAROSLAV HYRSL INERALS DESCRIBED SINCE 2004 MINERALS...dist., China Fluomatromicrolite, x 25111111, Naipa mine, Mozambique Daliranite, 5111111, Zarshouran Au-As...Domafov, Czech Rep. Juangodoyite, 60111111, Santa Rosa mine, Chile Back cover photo: Ho/fertile on hematite...piment pseudomo,phs after realga,; 75 mm, Palomo mine, Pen, Page 3: Stepite on arsenic, 45 111111,Jachymov...CCM CM DANR EJM JMPS MM MP NJMA ZRMO Republic province prefecture county departement departamento
 
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