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Cuprite from
Calabona Mine, Alghero, Sassari Province, Sardinia, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyrite1 photo of Cuprite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Covellite1 photo of Cuprite associated with Covellite at this locality.
Malachite1 photo of Cuprite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Calabona Mine, Alghero, Sassari Province, Sardinia, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:262299
Long-form Identifier:1:3:262299:6
GUID (UUID V4):bfa9a561-2d5b-4cbd-b340-11342197960c
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprite
59.5km (37.0 miles) Su Elzu, Ozieri, Sassari Province, Sardinia, Italy
References
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(a mass of small cavities), from Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Right: Needle-shaped crystals of aurichalcite...Zaire, and in various parts of F ranee, Greece, Italy and Russia. FACT Above: An example of aurichalcite...the presence of one or more Above: A piece of cuprite - which today they are often produced by artificial...of Jibethenite crystals from Kakanda in Shaba Province, Zaire. m r- LI M N E R A L S ex: w z...Vesuvius, the famous volcano m ::lJ near Naples in,Italy. So great was the heat of the eruption that solid
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PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FEDERICO PEZZOTTA CURATOR OF MINERALOGY...JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 2011 PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY Participating Collectors: Marco Amabili Silvia...Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto collection... MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY )In OutCine of MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY Federico Pezzotta Mineralogy...literature and music, scholars and aristocrats in Italy assembled some of the first great collections of
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with Orbis Publishing Limited abcdefgh Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara Adapted from the original Italian...67 crocidolite 100 crocoite 62, 63 eryolite 22 cuprite 22, 23 curite 36 cuspidine 85 cyclosilicates...(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...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite
Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by |GDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...67 crocidolite 100 crocoite 62, 63 cryolite 22 cuprite 22, 23 curite 36 cuspidine 85 cyclosilicates 90...(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)...covered with calcite. Casteltermini, Agrigento (Italy) look more different. Theirs is the most notable
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Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...67 crocidolite 100 crocoite 62, 63 cryolite 22 cuprite 22, 23 curite 36 cuspidine 85 cyclosilicates 90...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
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(Federal Republic of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland...Saxony, GDR llfeld, Harz, GDR Rio Marina, Elba, Italy Schneeberg, Saxony, GD R Wolfsberg, Harz, GDR Freiberg...particularly interesting collection of miners' lamps and mine surveying instruments. Ancient and mediaeval mining...worn by mine officials of Saxony on ceremonial occasions. A special attraction is a model mine, 20m below...N. from the main railway station, landmark is a mine headframe. Tues.- Fri. 8.30-17.30 hrs.; Sat.- Sun
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to try to list all of the mining geologists and mine managers who made these visits possible and who...Netherlands-Extreme Western Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. Volume V (or Volume III, Part III) will take up...current electoral and administrative departments. In Italy the deposits are listed alphabetically, except for...east of Coimbra (N40°12 N, 8 ° 2 5 W ) in the province off Beira f Baixa and some 25 km slightly NofW...crude ore averages about 0.3 per cent of WO3. The mine can produce 2000 to 2500 tons per day of tungsten
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Geografico De Agostini, Novara 1967 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara SBN 0 85613 108 3 Crystallography...blende, tetrahedrite, pyrite, hauerite, smaltite, cuprite, sylvine and ullmannite. HEXAGONAL SYSTEM. As has...garnet known as hessonite . Val d’Ala, Piedmont, Italy (4 mm). The rhombic-shaped face in the centre is...Cubic system. Triglyphic pyrite, from Traversella, Italy (30 mm). The corner of the crystal is interrupted...form. 17 Cubic system. Pyrite from Grosseto, Italy (10 mm). The pentagona l dodecahedral form ofthis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
O5 ) (OH)4 ·n(H2 O) [3,24,25]), copper oxides (cuprite—Cu2 O [15]; tenorite—CuO [26,27]), and copper organometallics...(brochantite [8,29], posnjakite [30]), and copper oxides (cuprite [15], tenorite [26,27]) were present in art objects...268, 431, 534, 1058, 1098 cm−1 ) with, probably, cuprite (150, 210 cm−1 ) and azurite (398, 1094 cm−1 )...minerals from two possible local sources (Piotr mine shaft in Miedzianka in the HCM, andand minerals...local sources (Piotr mine shaft in Miedzianka in the HCM, SegenGotttes Gotttes mine mine in in Miedzianka
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aurifères des roches volcaniques de Rodalquilar, Province d' Almeria. ARGENT Ag Cubique. Les cristaux nets...allongées Vue générale des installations de la mine d'or de l'entreprise nationale Adaro, à Rodalquilar...Guadalajara ; Guadalcanal, province de Séville et ceux de Las Her rerias, province d' Almeria. ELE,\J F...dans les mines de Jaroso, _Almagrcra, dans la province d'Almcria. De l'allemand W1SMUTH, d'origine inconnue...étain. Abondant en Saxe, Allemagne; à Sorata, province de La Paz, Bolivie; Kingsgate, Nouvelles Galles
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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...azurite, cerussite, smithsonite), a few oxides (cuprite) and certain native elements (gold, silver, copper)...that a collector in the field should visit are mine dumps and quarry rubble heaps, where there will
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mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5...divided by the weight of an Graphite, Black Donald Mine, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada * 14 x 11 x 10
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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:...Brunswick (Canada), Kern County (California, USA), Sardinia (Italy) and Sarawak (Borneo). Sb Colour: light grey...Russia, South Korea, Mexico, the Czech RepubUc and Italy. C Colour: black Lustre; opacity: dull metallic;...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)
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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:...Brunswick (Canada), Kern County (California, USA), Sardinia (Italy) and Sarawak (Borneo). Sb Colour: light grey...Russia, South Korea, Mexico, the Czech RepubUc and Italy. C Colour: black Lustre; opacity: dull metall...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)
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times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...octahedron. Elba, Italy. Below center Combined octahedral and pyritohedral faces. Elba, Italy. Below right...largest diamond ever found was the Cullinan (Premier mine, 1905), of 3,106 et., or 621.2 grams; from it were...time. Very few pipes are worth working. The Premier mine produces 1 million carats a year. Alluvial deposits:...Hematite, iridescent tarnished crystals. Elba, Italy. Ct11ter left Botryoidal, massive to finely fibrous
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museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...over its beer: to go underground in a non-working mine is sheer folly unless you are accompanied by someone...(preferably several people) who really knows the mine. Before venturing into the field serious collectors...really is a matter of life or death when you are in a mine - only a plan will show where water on the floor...even on you. If you are recovering specimens from a mine (few collectors can or should do this) watch the
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miners drill holes in the rock at Taxco silver mine in Mexico. Right: North Sea drilling rig 'Claymore-A'...crystals set in an asbestos base from Sondrio in Italy. Actinolite has high mechanical sensitivity - this...(matrix) from Balzano, Italy. Below: Note the blackness of these crystals from Novara, Italy. ~ Actinolite forms...British Columbia (Canada), in the Alpine regions of Italy, in New Zealand, in Siberia (Russia) and in Alaska...particularly in the Ojuela result of some chemical Mine in Durango State. reaction that has occurred Significant
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Guastoni; Roberto Appiani. Originally published: Italy : Mondadori, 2003. [256] p. : col. photos. ; cm...BOOK OPENING-PAGE CAPTIONS Page 1: Cuprite crystals from the Ray mine, Arizona Pages 2-3: Liroconite from...Susa Valley, Piedmont, Italy Pages 8-9: Beryl from the Codera Valley, Lombardy, Italy Pages 42-43: Silver...Mount Bregaceto, Liguria, Italy Pages 104-105: Azurite crystals from Sardinia, Italy Pages 118-119: Boracite...160-161: Elbaite crystals from the island of Elba, Italy Pages 244-245: Whewellite crystals from the Czech
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is followed by an enrichment zone of azurite ‡ cuprite ‡ native copper  delafossite  tenorite  malachite...Ghezzo C, Stefanini B (1992) The Calabona intrusive complex (Sardinia, Italy): evidence for a porphyry copper
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oxidized zones of copper deposits, often with cuprite and malachite. Localities. Very often a mineral...Right: This silver specimen from Seed. Sarrabus. Sardinia, is called filiform from its threadlike appearance...in association with chalcopyrite, chalcocite, cuprite, mala¬ chite and azurite. It often occurs in the...Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....appraisal. Many Right: Native mercury from Lucca. Italy. This form is extremely rare as mercury is normally
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tétraédrites, la pyrite, l'hauerite, la smaltine, la cuprite, la sylvine, l'ullmannite. SYSTÈME HEXAGONAL. Etant...système : cube et octaèdre. 21 Système cubique. Cuprite. Cornouailles, Angleterre (5 mm). 19 20 21 Développement...apatite 26 Système hexagonal. Covellinc. Calabona, Alghero, Sardaigne (75 mm). Agrégat de lamelles avec... 34 38 Système rhomboédrique. Calcite. Bigrigg Mine, Egremont, Cumberland, Angleterre mm). Agrégat de...Système quadratique. Wulfénite (figure 61). Old Yuma Mine, Arizona, Etats-Unis (g mm). La forme tabulaire
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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
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mineral or gem society in almost every state and province, attend regular meetings, and go on conducted...by his discovery of the world’s largest diamond mine. Nevertheless, the amateur will surely find many...have come from the Calabona mine at Al- ghero on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. Similar specimens...rocks. Such an occurrence is the one at the Sullivan mine, Kimberley, B. C. 57 STIBNITE KEYS: Metallic...Johannesburg. The ranking gold mine of the Western Hemisphere is the Homestake mine at Lead, S.D. 62 COPPER
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[(OH)5 (P04)4]' 6 H20 (monoclinic, brown) Rotlăufchen Mine near Wetzlar/FRG Original size 5 x 6 mm ISBN-13:...a deeper view of the crust in mines. The deepest mine shafts are those of the gold mines in the Witwatersrand...century. Its thatched 3 Native Gold on Quartz Grace Mine, Ontario/Canada Original size 19 x 30 mm Isometric...the 23.6 carat Williamson Pink from the Williamson mine in Tanzania. Treatment of diamonds with neutrons...of the leading diamond producers. In the Premier mine, near Pretoria, South Africa, the larg est diamond
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71 An Occurrence of Djurleite at West Caradon Mine, Cornwall I.A. Lawrence 81 NOTE Cinnabar from...to 1'. Pieces 2'x 2' to 4'x 3' from £5. FLORENCE MINE. CUMBRIA, Botryoidal Hematite, plus some pieces...waste rock , obtained by digging into the overgrown mine dumps on the flat ground behind the ruined Richmont...MONT / ... ," CASTLE ~adit ,', ," overgrown mine workings and dumps ," 100m FIGURE 2. Sketch map...associated with smithsonite-bearing veins. Near the mine entrance the major vein attains a maximum thickness
 
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