Sardinia's Mine
Sardinia's Mines

In this section you will find a brief introduction  about some of the most famous mines in Sardinia and same other thing around mineral collection. The Sardinia island was one on the most important mining area in Italy and probably some of the best samples among Italian minerals came from here. It's enough to think to the famous Phosgenite crystals found in the Monteponi mine. Now almsot all the mines in the area are closed and there is a project on going to create a Geo-Mining park.  The IGEA company is working on almost all the old mines to restore the old dumps and closing all the entrances.  In our opinion it will be more and more difficult to find minerals samples in the future and the only research possibilities will be in some restricted areas.

In the following pages you will find some news about the mines and a lot of pictures showing  the current situation.

This section this year has been renewed with some new original material coming from the mineralogical trip we made this summer and also with the material from a very interesting site on Sardinian mineralogy and mines:

WWW.MINIEREDISARDEGNA.IT 

Mineralogical site of Sardinia:

• Osilo Quarries

• Montevecchio Mine

• Fluminimaggiore Area

• Masua Area

• Iglesias Area

• Marganai Area

• Monastir Quarry

• South West Mines

• South East Mines

About Mineral Collection in Sardinia:

• Sardinia - March, 2006

• Pusceddu Collection

• Classical Specimens from Sardinia

You can easily visit the different mines and mineralogical localities  by clicking the map here below .