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Italy, Sardegna, Carbonia-Iglesias prov., Fluminimaggiore,
Tini Arenas mine
Old Pb/Zn mine, North
of Sa Duchessa mine (Domusnovas area). It is the union of previous
Tiny mine and Arenas mine. I have five pieces from this locality
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Cerussite
Group of intersecting cerussite XX up to 1.5 cm
long on botryoidal goethite matrix
15X10cm
Tini-Arenas mine, Fluminimaggiore, Carbonia-Iglesias. Italy
Specimen n.587
2nd photo
3rd photo:
a view on cerussite
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Fluorite
Cubic XX, edge up to 0.4cm, with well defined phantoms. There is
some hemimorphite amongst the XX; the back of this specimen is
covered by clear fluorite XX
12.5x10.5cm
Tini-Arenas mine, Fluminimaggiore, Carbonia-Iglesias. Italy
Specimen n.697
2nd photo
3rd photo:
entire piece
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Fluorite
Group of XX, mainly cubes, with some octahedral faces, edge up to 1.4cm
13x11cm
Tini-Arenas mine, Fluminimaggiore, Carbonia-Iglesias. Italy
Specimen n.718
Another photo:
bigger view
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Hydrozincite
Massive encrustation, with small XX, on dark brown crystallized calcite (XX
up to 3.5cm wide)
16x8cm
Tini-Arenas mine, Fluminimaggiore, Carbonia-Iglesias. Italy
Specimen n.231
Another photo: a
bigger view
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Sphalerite
Group of dark red XX, up to 0.5cm wide, in a dolomite
cavity
6x8.5cm
Tini-Arenas mine, Fluminimaggiore, Carbonia-Iglesias. Italy
Specimen n.1071
Another photo: a
bigger view
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