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Sphalerite from
Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyrargyrite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Pyrargyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1215150
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1215150:1
GUID (UUID V4):47cbb9af-8525-4bdc-97a7-356e4e1aab78
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Giovanni Bonu Mine, San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
1.7km (1.1 miles) Perd'Arba Mine (S'Omini Mortu; Sa Fraigada), San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
2.7km (1.7 miles) Masaloni Mine, San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
4.5km (2.8 miles) Bacu Arrodas Mine (Baccu Arrodas Mine; Bacu Arrodas-S'Arrexini Mine), Muravera, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
5.6km (3.5 miles) Bruncu Vintura Prospect, Villaputzu, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
6.0km (3.7 miles) Peddiattu Mine (Peddeatu Mine), San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
7.2km (4.5 miles) Su Leonargiu Mine, San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
7.2km (4.5 miles) S'Arcilloni Mine, Burcei, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
9.0km (5.6 miles) Nicola Secci Mine, Burcei, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
9.1km (5.7 miles) Tacconis Mine, San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Proustite, acanthite, silver, tetrahedrite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite. Distribution: From many silver mining...Přı́bram, and Třebsko. In Italy, fine twins from Monte Narba, near Sarrabus, Sardinia. In England, as twinned...Keno Hill Mines, and fine examples from the Husky mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory. In the USA, in Nevada, as...Chañarcillo, south of Copiapó, Atacama, Chile. In Bolivia, from Colquechaca, Potosı́. At San Cristobal...Cristobal, Peru. From Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Name: In honor of the Archduke Victor Stephan (1817–1867)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for the Origin of the Barite Depositsfrom Sardinia,Italy M. BARBIERI, U. MASI, AND L. TOLOMEO Istitutodi...Universitci di Roma,CittciUniversitaria,00100 Rome,Italy Abstract The Sr contentof 137 samples of barite...karstandhydrothermal deposits of post-Cambrian agein Sardinia. Sr isotopecomposition of selectedsamples of ...derivedfroma marineprecursorsuchasthe Cambrian In Sardinia, fluorite and barite occur as gangue stratiformbarite...the Mineralization depositsis madeup of galena,sphalerite,fluorite, In Sardiniatwo major kindsof ore depositscanbe
Report (issue)
2 67.48 Total 99.92 99.9 100.00 (1) Hudson Bay mine, Cobalt, Canada; in part due to nickeline. (2) St...tetrahedrite, pyrrhotite, cubanite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, calcite. Distribution: In Germany, from...Andreasberg, Harz Mountains [TL??], and in the Merkur mine, Bad Ems, Rhineland-Palatinate. In France, at Ar...Pierrefitte, Hautes-Pyrénées. On Monte Narba, Sarrabus, Sardinia, Italy. From Tunaberg, Saxberget, and...New South Wales, Australia. From the Noril’sk region, western Siberia, Russia. In the Natsume mine, Hyogo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Variscan tin province associated to the ilmenite-series granites of the Sardinian Batholith (Italy): The Sn...Sn and Mo mineralisation around the Monte Linas ferroan granite S. Naitza, A.M. Conte, S. Cuccuru, G....Variscan tin province associated to the ilmenite-series granites of the Sardinian Batholith (Italy): The Sn...Sn and Mo mineralisation around the Monte Linas ferroan granite, Ore Geology Reviews (2016), doi: 10.1016/j...Variscan tin province associated to the ilmenite-series granites of the Sardinian Batholith (Italy): the Sn
Book
another large group of minerals, such as the dark sphalerite, cassiterite, rutile, etc., it is rather difficult...is harder (6) than chalcopyrite (4.5). Black sphalerite and black cassiterite display the same submetallic...by their degree of hardness. The hardness of sphalerite is 3.5, and of cassiterite 6.5. A supplementary...distinctive feature may be the frequent association of sphalerite with other sulphides, and of cassiterite with...interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves
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Rigby Limited 30 North Terrace, Kent Town Adelaide, South Australia 5067 Printed in Czechoslovakia by Svoboda...another large group of minerals, such as the dark sphalerite, cassiterite, rutile, etc., it is rather difficult...is harder (6) than chalcopyrite (4.5). Black sphalerite and black cassiterite display the same submetallic...by their degree of hardness. The hardness of sphalerite is 3.5, and of cassiterite 6.5. A supplementary...distinctive feature may be the frequent association of sphalerite with other sulphides, and of cassiterite with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to 55 m and although much of it is almost 100% sphalerite, some intervals contain a large amount of coarse...basement and that it was originally more extensive. Sphalerite mineralization was also emplaced in fractures...unoxidized, contains clasts and fine disseminations of sphalerite and galena that are clearly derived from the...of the flat-topped hills in the vicinity of the mine are believed to be remnants of sheets of travertine...in a mobile belt; no known primary source 8. New South Wales: in Phanerozoic conglomerates in a mobile
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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...district Aznalc6llar . Sotiel . Rio Tinto mines. San Telma . Lomero-Poyatos. Maria Luisa Mines of the.... Tin and tungsten Penouta . Laza. San Finx. Santa Camba . Monte Neme . Casualidad-Calabor Santa Elisa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
flattened on { 11 1 }. areas, including much of western South America, specifically that portion domCrystals rarely... occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal...collected from surface exposures near the Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the...the Sullivan mine ver-lined history is Colorado, with a pro(King and Foord 1994). Silver duction of more
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(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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Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets...of crystallized gold occurred in the Jamestow n mine. California, USA, where a cavity, which yielded
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Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...mm (4 5/i6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HOMOGENIZATION TEMPERATURES OF ACCESSORY MINERALS FROM SPHALERITE-BEARING DEPOSITS AND Ga/Ge MODEL TEMPERATURES...homogemzatmntemperatures of accessorymmerals from sphalerite-bearmgdeposits and Ga/Ge model temperatures In...hosted Monte Narba, Italy discordant veins m Silurian black shales 2-15 (9) 105-140 (Qz) Monte dl Ferru...Ferru, Italy discordant veins in Ordovmian gray wackes and sandstones 5-39 (3) 195-252 (Qz) Tlstl...D , 1956 Geochemistry of sphalente from the Star Mine, Coeur d'Alene Dlstrmt, Idaho Econ Geol, 51 223
Book (edition)
HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Elsevier...hedenbergite), b) its meaning may shift over time - sphalerite, for instance, was dumped by early miners, while...Polymorphism as, for instance, found in the ZnS system (sphalerite/wurtzite), is often difficult to discern: Changes...replaced by sphalerite. Only under XPL it stands out from the lighter coronal sphalerite overgrowth by...to the next). Left: Galena (lighter grey) and Sphalerite (darker grey). When minimum/maximum values are
Book (edition)
Heidelberg – London – New York – Oxford – Paris San Diego – San Francisco – Singapore – Sydney – Tokyo Elsevier...Metal : Sulfur, Selenium and Tellurium = 1:1 Sphalerite II/C.01-10 Metacinnabar II/C.01-30 Stilleite...hedenbergite), b) its meaning shifts over time - sphalerite, for instance, was dumped by early miners, while...reaction rim of argentite (greenish grey); Monte Narba, Sardinia, Italy [b]; Nic. // Anhedral silver (medium...scratches) in galena (dark, some scratches); Monte Narba, Sardinia, Italy [b]; Nic. + Myrmekitic intergrowth of
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and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...preferred position. in the figure labeled 461 San Jose, Bolivia, for the brachydome v read w. insert...5, for Black Forest read Odenwald. for Rhine Province read Westphalia. for in the Tirol read, Salzburg...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman...the only minerals having this kind of bonding. sphalerite, and a number of the sulfides have the homopolar
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION...localities of magmatic origin (in the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa
Journal (issue)
perpuovi luoghi di ritrova :E E O ini abbonamenti": MINE Sode Verla GmbH • Postfach 405 • D- E' uscito...Francia e in parte alla fonderia del Cocomero sul Monte Argentario (D' Achiardi, J 873). Successivamente...Peretai1e, a new minerai from Pereta, Tuscany, Italy. American Mineralogisr. 65, 936-939. • COQUAND...second world occurrence of mopungite from thc Pereta mine, Tuscany. ltaly. A11i Soc. Tosc. Scienze Nat., 94... B., TAZZIN! M., (1984): Minerals of the Pereta mine, Tuscany. ltaly. Mi11eralogical Record, l, 19-26
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Denmark . Egypt France Germany Hungary Israel . Italy Japan. Kazakhstan Republic Netherlands New Zealand...available for exchange. Open to the public: No. South Australian Museum North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000...Monday to Friday 9:00 to 17:00. University of South Australia Department of Geology, Smith Road, Salisbury...Queensland Museum Grey St., South Brisbane, QLD 4101; postal address: P.O. Box 3300, South Brisbane, QLD 4101...Queensland Gold collection, including crystal gold; South East Queensland Iris Agate collection. Uses and
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from the poles of the spherical projection to the south pole of the sphere. The points in which these lines...will fall the stereographic projecAll north and south tion. meridians of the spherical projection will...locate the pole of a face lying on a known north and south great circle, (1) angular distance from the center...of a great circle which is not a north (2) and south meridian or the equator. The projections of three...locate the position of the pole of not a north and south meridian, its 36 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY II s i
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Meggen, Ramsbeck, and Dreislar, the Fortuna iron mine, and Kupferschiefer exposures. During the symposium...most likely primary source for the cadmium is sphalerite, which was observed in a few veins, well sealed...anomalous. There appears to be a central, residual, sphalerite-related anomaly with broad lateral dispersion...micro-organisms accumulate zinc by actively dissolving sphalerite or scavenging whatever soluble zinc can be found...locality for manganese-oxide coatings at the Magruder Mine in Georgia (for example, Carpenter et al., 1978)
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Ernest H. Nickel, CSIRO, Wembley, WA, Australia, and Monte C. Nichols published by Aleph Enterprises, Box 213...England. Sharon Cisneros: Minerological Research Co., San Jose, California. Andrew M. Clark: Dept. of Mineralogy...Short Hills, New Jersey. Renato Pagano: Milan, Italy. Ole V. Petersen: Geologisk Museum, Copenhagen,...Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. Alan Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar...wolframite Quartz Opal, some yellow varieties of sphalerite Nepheline Tale, brucite Sillimanite such terms
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possess even higher contents of lead and galena, sphalerite, silver, gold, and palladium. I n places of extreme...extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are also...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;...(1940). 12 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 4 80 X Mouat Mine, Stillwater Valley, Montana RAMDOHR From a border...especially in the geologically ancient deposits of sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite in Central Sweden,
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limited to a small district near Muzo in Colombia, South America. Minerals containing specific groups of...feet long and 5 feet in diameter; Black Hills, South Dakota. Transparent aquamarine crystal; weight 243...long; weight estimated at 90 tons; Etta Mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. PHLOGOPITE MICA: Crystal 33 feet...14 feet wide; weight approximately 90 tons; Lacy Mine, Ontario, Canada. QUARTZ: Milky white crystal; close...atoms. One-ton crystal; Bob Ingersoll Mine, Keystone, South Dakota. COLUMBITE: Transparent crystals;
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