Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Phosgeniteā“˜2 photos of Calcite associated with Phosgenite at this locality.
Galenaā“˜1 photo of Calcite associated with Galena at this locality.
Smithsoniteā“˜1 photo of Calcite associated with Smithsonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:254656
Long-form Identifier:1:3:254656:8
GUID (UUID V4):4454e918-23d8-4f0e-9726-563042066c44
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
1.8km (1.1 miles) ā“˜San Giovanni Mine, Bindua, Iglesias, 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
9.0km (5.6 miles) ā“˜Reigraxius Mine, Domusnovas, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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)
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)
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...between smithsonite, phosgenite, hydrozincite and calcite is less than about 2ā€°, while cerussites are strongly...Znā€“Pb deposits (Iglesiente district ā€” Sardinia, Broken Hill ā€” New South Wales, Vila Ruiva ā€” Portugal, Freihung
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...e., part of the Idina orebody in the S. Giovanni mine) possibly represent internal sediments. The so-called
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
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...analyses of their carbonates (smithsonite-cerussite-calcite). The oxygen isotope variation of the individual...Upper Silesia (now Poland) (Fig. 2) and southwest Sardinia (Fig. 3a,b). Several Belgian mining companies
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 (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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Permo-Triassic vein and paleokarst ores in southwest Sardinia: Contribution of fluid inclusion studies to their...di Napoli, Largo S. Marcellino, 10 80138 Napoli, Italy Abstract. This paper presents and discusses new...in the Iglesiente and Sulcis areas of southwest Sardinia. The results suggest that the fluids associated...temperatures (from below 60 Ā°C to 130 Ā°C for quartz, calcite, barite and dolomite, higher for fluorite) and...lglesiente and Sulcis mining districts (southwest Sardinia) (Fig. l a) numerous lead, zinc, barite and minor
Catalog/List
length, partially embedded in sligttly pinkish Calcite matrix with a little blackish Hornbl~de in association...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
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)
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...whole platform. 1. Introduction In southwestern Sardinia (Iglesiente-Sulcis district) a mostly shallow-water
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...example after example of the usual Tsumeb suspects (calcite, smithsonite, dioptase, cerussite, anglesite, willemiteā€¦)...fine cerussite specimens from the old Monteponi mine, Sardinia, Italy, which Tomek Praszkier of Spirifer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
galena, barite, and calcite specimens found there in the ore cars and in the mine itself. Even today Sr...8. Samsonite, main crystal 1.1 Ɨ 0.3 cm, Samson mine, Saint Andreasberg, Saint Andreasberg district,...11 cm, Touissit, Touissit district, Oujda-Angad Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. specimens. Apart from...Ɨ 7.5 Ɨ 5.3 cm, Monteponi mine, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy. Figure 10 (center)...(center). Hessite with gold and calcite, 7.3 Ɨ 6.0 Ɨ 5.8 cm, Botes, Alba County, Romania. Figure 11 (lower)
Book
with Orbis Publishing Limited abcdefgh Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara Adapted from the original Italian...100 cabrerite 70, 73 cainite 62 calamine 40, 87 calcite 43, 45 campylite 68 cannizzarite 18 carbonates...(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
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).
Book
Translation Ā© Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...100 cabrerite 70, 73 cainite62 calamine 40, 87 calcite 43, 45 campylite 68 cannizzarite 18 carbonates...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 Ā·elements Chemical elernents found...(Yugoslavia), son1e n1ines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almaden (Spain). In the United States it is
Catalog/List
attention at all times. JULY 1973 1. ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico. Choice well-formed yellowish green...encrusting cellular Limonite matrix, with minor Calcite in association. 3x2t lT ā€¢ Ā£5. 2. ANDRADITE GARNET...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
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
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...by Richard Pearce in 1903. 2-!;-xl~-". Ā£8.00. CALCITE. Machen Quarry, Rudry, Glamorgan. Sharp, composite
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
Translation Ā© Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by |GDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...anorthite 112, 1/3 cainite 62 calamine 40, 87 calcite 43, 45 antigorite 108 campylite 68 antimonides...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and AlmadĆ©n (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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
noted Figure 1. Autunite, 6.5 Ɨ 4 Ɨ 4 cm, Daybreak mine, Spokane County, Washington. Private collection...Aragonite, 8 Ɨ 8 Ɨ 5 cm, Giumentaro mine, Capodarso, Enna, Sicily, Italy. internal characteristics (phantoms...Figure 3. Laumontite, 12.5 Ɨ 5.7 Ɨ 4 cm, Pine Creek mine, Mount Morgan, Inyo County, California. Light Control:...71 Figure 5. Manganesebearing calcite, 13 Ɨ 8 Ɨ 10 cm, Manaoshan mine, Dongpo orefield, Hunan, China...That is simply not true. To capture the manganoan calcite in figure 7, I used both white light and UV light
 
and/or  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are Ā© OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: May 10, 2024 01:03:29
Go to top of page