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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cerussiteā“˜2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Cerussite at this locality.
Quartz2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:98837
Long-form Identifier:1:3:98837:3
GUID (UUID V4):ab41809e-6747-4076-af6a-f5d3d85e4f83
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
1.8km (1.1 miles) ā“˜San Giovanni Mine, Bindua, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
3.9km (2.4 miles) ā“˜Punta della Torre Mine, Gonnesa, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
3.9km (2.4 miles) ā“˜Seddas Moddizzis Mine, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
5.3km (3.3 miles) ā“˜San Giovanneddu Mine (S'Ega Porceddu), Gonnesa, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
5.7km (3.5 miles) ā“˜Nebida mine, Nebida, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
6.0km (3.8 miles) ā“˜Barega Mine, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
6.8km (4.2 miles) ā“˜San Benedetto Mine, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
7.5km (4.7 miles) ā“˜Montecani mine, Nebida, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
8.7km (5.4 miles) ā“˜Baueddu Mine, Fluminimaggiore, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
8.8km (5.5 miles) ā“˜Malacalzetta Mine, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Western Mediterranean province (CĆ©vennes, Franceā€“ Sardinia, Italy) Downloaded by [Laurentian University]...Lower Palaeozoic Iglesiente domain of southwest Sardinia and the southern CĆ©vennesā€“Montagne Noire Variscan...gold province of Sardinia is genetically quite distinct from the Palaeozoic leadā€“zinc province of Iglesiente...(southern CĆ©vennes, Montagne Noire) and southwestern Sardinia (Iglesienteā€“Sulcis). Essentially Cambro-Ordovician...attractive example54 and the Tertiary gold of western Sardinia is a new, economically interesting discovery.77a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2003, pp. 731ā€“748 The ā€œCalamineā€ of Southwest Sardinia: Geology, Mineralogy, and Stable Isotope Geochemistry...ā€œFederico II,ā€ Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134-Napoli, Italy H. ALBERT GILG, FakultƤt Chemie, Technische UniversitƤt...ā€œFederico II,ā€Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134-Napoli, Italy AND GIUSEPPINA BALASSONE Dipartimento di Scienze...Mezzocannone 8, 80134-Napoli, Italy Abstract The mining district of southwest Sardinia, Italy, is one of the classic...tectonostratigraphic and climatic evolution of Sardinia and includes a petrographic and mineralogic study
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Iglesiente-Sulcis mining district, Southwestern Sardinia, Italy G. Cortecci 1, J. Ch. Fontes 2, A. Maiorani...UniversitA di Pisa, Via Santa Maria 53, 1-56100 Pisa, Italy z Laboratoire d'Hydrologie et de G6ochimie Isotopique...Napoli, Italy 4 Istituto Italiano di Speleologia, Universitfi di Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy 5 Bariosarda...Bariosarda S.p.A., Via Cattaneo 74, 09016 Iglesias, Cagliari, Italy 6 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra...Universitfi La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro, 00100 Roma, Italy Abstract. This paper deals with barite from stratiform
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotope pattern from the Iglesiente-Sulcis Area (SW Sardinia) and the problem of remobilization of metals M...of Technology, CH-8092 Zuerich Abstract. In SW Sardinia syngenetic to syndiagenetic Pb-Zn ores occur...setting The Precambrian to Cambrian sequence of SW Sardinia represents the evolution of a sedimentary platform...the Iglesiente and Sulcis mining districts in SW Sardinia more than 30 major deposits of P b - Z n and Ba...al. 1974). In few areas layers of galena and sphalerite occur in the same carbonate intercalations.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
delle Risorse, Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134-Napoli ITALY boni@unina.it Tel. +39-08125350068 1 ACCEPTED... Belgium ā€“ where everything started 5.1.2. SW Sardinia ā€“ the small Paris 5.1.3. Poland ā€“ could still...Skorpion ā€“ Everybodyā€™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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ā€œFederico II,ā€ Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134 Napoli, Italy AND DUNCAN LARGE Paracelsusstrasse 40, 38116 Braunschweig...principal occurrences in Silesia (Poland), Sardinia (Italy), and northern Spain are described. These deposits...Furthermore, there are additional nongeologic resources in mine dumps, flotation tailings, and smelter residues...mining (e.g., Upper Silesia, Poland; southwest Sardinia, Italy), they will not be discussed further in this...District Reocin Madrid Rome Thassos Cartagena Iglesias District Athens Laurion FIG. 1. Location of most
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UniversitĆ  di Napoli ā€œFederico IIā€, 80134 Napoli, Italy c Geologisch-Palaeontologisches Institut, UniversitƤt...carbonate-hosted ores from the Iglesiente district (Sardinia, Italy) and Vila Ruiva (Portugal), as well as from...silicate-hosted ores of the Broken Hill district, New South Wales (Australia) and Freihung (Germany) and review...Znā€“Pb deposits (Iglesiente district ā€” Sardinia, Broken Hill ā€” New South Wales, Vila Ruiva ā€” Portugal, Freihung...Mineral Description Iglesiente District, SW Sardinia, Italy 27-G sm Rounded leached crystals 20-Ga sm Massive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HydrothermalActivityand Mineralizationin SouthwestSardinia(Italy) M. BONL A. IANNACE, Dipartimento di Scienze de... di Napoli,LargoSanMarcellino10, 1-80138Napoli,Italy V. Kā€¢SPPEL,G. FRi)H-GREEN, AND W. HANSMANN Department...post-Hercynian geologic evolutionof southwest Sardinia. According to geological andmineralogiealcharacteristics...geologicalandgeochemical data Arbus 40'h ā€¢S ' GL SIENT I Iglesias ā€¢""Ca rbonia 0 5 I I a 10Km I b c d...Barega,20 = S. Giovanni,21 = Seddas Moddizzis,22 = Monteponi,23 = S. Lorenzo,24 = Reigraxius (S.Giovanni),25
Report (issue)
discovery in the big open-pit Rosia Poieni copper mine, Muşca, Alba, Romania. Anton Watzl brought about...transparent sea-green vivianite from the Rosia Poieni mine either form jackstraw clusters, many with pale gray...====ļ‚„ Vivianite, 5.5 cm, from the Rosia Poieni mine, Muşca, Alba, Romania. MCh Minerals specimen and...and photo. Vivianite, 5 cm, from the Rosia Poieni mine, Muşca, Alba, Romania. MCh Minerals specimen and...autunite: the Nanjingqiao deposit near Pinjiang, Hunan Province, where ā€œquartz vein-type uranium mineralization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DEPOSITS AND THEIR HOST CARBONATES, SOUTHWESTERN SARDINIA, ITALY MARIA BONIl, ALESSANDRO IANNACEā€™ and CATHERINE...Scienze della Terra, Universitk degli Studi, Naples (Italy) ā€˜Dkpartement de Geā€™ologie Dynamique, Universiteā€™...deposits and their host carbonates, southwestern Sardinia, Italy. In: A.R. Chivas (Guest-Editor), Isotopes in...deposits exploited in Italy are in the lower Cambrian carbonates of southwestern Sardinia where the strata-bound...isotope data both on the ore minerals (galena, sphalerite, pyrite, barite) and on the carbonate host rocks
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...particularly interesting collection of miners' lamps and mine surveying instruments. Ancient and mediaeval mining
Catalog/List
J 3. APATITE variety FRA~CoLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Select, sharp, lustrous...association. l-txltxl". Ā£2.75. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Nr. Callington, Cornwall. Very rich, light green...mineral. 4x2xli". Ā£4,50. 5. 6. AURICHALCITE. 79 Mine, Gila Co., Arizona, U.S.A. Select, turquoise coloured...attractive specillBn. 3x2xlt". Ā£4.75. 7. AUTUNITE. Mine La Faye, Grury, Saone-at-Loire, France. Rich, crust...3-txltxl-t". Ā£4.50. J -28. AZURITE. Henderson Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, U.S.A. Specimen A
Journal (issue)
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
Report (issue)
prospects in the Killa Saifullah District, Balochistan Province, Pakistan. I have at least alluded to this new...brucite of yore from the Tilly Foster mine in New York or Woodā€™s Chrome mine in Pennsylvania. In that the new...material found in 2005 in the Nā€™Chwaning III mine in South Africa, but Nā€™Chwaning brucite is graywhite...fine cerussite specimens from the old Monteponi mine, Sardinia, Italy, which Tomek Praszkier of Spirifer...it appears that Tomek didnā€™t sell all of his Monteponi cerussites in Munich, for five are now up for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
09127 Cagliari, Italy Department of Sciences, University of Roma Tre, 00146 Rome, Italy a r t i c l e...abundant minerals in the ā€˜ā€˜calamineā€ deposits in SW Sardinia. In spite of their importance for the development...non-sulfide Zn minerals of economic significance in the Sardinia mining districts are smithsonite, hydrozincite...characteristic remnant magnetization in samples from SW Sardinia, Boni et al. (2005) found that different magnetic...event happened after the rotation of the Corsica-Sardinia continental block (Early Miocene, ca. 16 Ma).
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 brittleā€“ductile transition in the south Variscan Sardinian chain [16], but it is also relevant
Catalog/List
thick. Ā£13.00. BISMUTHINITE. George & Charlotte Mine, Tavistock Hamlets, Devon. Rich, silvery grey, bladed...veinstuff. IpHxl" , Ā£1.50. BISMUTHINITE. Patino Mine, Uncia, Potosi Dist., Bolivia. Choice, very rich...cavities. lixl-!;-". Ā£4.50. 14.'/ BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Clusters of tarnished Bornite...mm. 2x2xl-t". Ā£13.00. 15. BROCHANTITE. Mammoth Mine, Tintic District, Utah, U.S.A. Bright, deep green...3>}x3x2". Ā£4.50. 16. 17. CALCITE. Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Cumberland. Translucent, milky coloured
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
attenuation can lead to environmental resilience in mine environment Elisabetta Dore a, Dario Fancello a...Monserrato, 09042, CA, Italy CNR-IGG, UOS Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, I-50121, Firenze, Italy c Department of...Sciences, University of Roma Tre, 00146, Rome, Italy d Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universitļæ½...a di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, Firenze, I-50121, Italy e U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Water Science...flowing in the Iglesiente and Arburese mine districts (SW Sardinia, Italy), exploited for zinc (Zn) and lead
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 ā€¢ Ā£1- 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich green crystaline to... 8. Li~ht green 2tx2t". Ā£1. AUTUNITE. South Terras Mine, st. Stephens, Cornwall. Light yellowish green...Quartz matrix. 2xlt". Ā£2.50. A?1JRITE. Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, U.S.A. Bright blue cellular mass
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
Catalog/List
all times. MARCH 1976 1. ANGLESITE. Monteponi, Iglesias, Sardinia. Select, large, sharp elongated terminated...l~lt". Ā£4.50. 6. 7. -. 8. AZURITE. Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, U.S.A. Bright, sparkling...colourful specimen., 3i;x2txlt". Ā£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". Ā£8.00. BARYToCALCITE. Nentsberry Mine, Alston Moor, Cumberland. Fine, sharp, creamy spear-like
Report (chapter)
Permo-Mesozoic multiple fluid flow and ore deposits in Sardinia: a comparison with post-Variscan mineralization...Federico II, Via Mezzocannone 8, 1-80134 Napoli, Italy (e-mail: boni@unina.iO 2Fysico-chemische Geologie...hydrothermal activity and mineralization in Sardinia (Italy) is reviewed in the framework of the geological...suggested timing for the hydrothermal events in Sardinia is: (1) Mid-Permian (270 Ma), (2) Triassic-Jurassic...hydrothermal activity and mineralization in Sardinia (Italy). This review is based on the extensive structural
Catalog/List
association. 2xlt-xl".Ā£6.5o. 3. ANGLESITE. Monteponi, Iglesias, Sardinia. Fine, lustrous, shaip translucent slightly...little Iron Pyrites and Sphalerite. 2tx2~xli". Ā£9.00. ARSENOPYRITE. Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum... 7. 8. 9. -Ā·2- 10. AZURITE. Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, U.S.A. select, bright... 3x2x1-t".Ā· Ā£22.00. 11. BARYTES. Settlingstones Mine, Hexham, Northumberland. Specimen A,- ~hoi~e, lust...2-tx2xl ".Ā£2.50. 12. BEUDANTITE.Ā· 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...sorosilicates 85 spessartite 78 sphaerocobaltite 42, 42 sphalerite 9, 10, /0 spherostilbite 124 spinel 24 spinel...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and AlmadƩn (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
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
 
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