Praborna Mine
Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy
The Praborna mine is an abandoned mine exploiting the Praborna manganese deposits.
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The mine produces a wide range of mineral species – mindat lists 74. It is the type locality for six minerals, including braunite, manganiandrosite-Ce, piemontite and strontiomelane.
Some unusual manganese minerals are found here too – alurgite, greenovite, violan.
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- Paglio Pignolino Mine, Dossena, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy
- Praborna Mine, Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy
- Roccamonfina, Roccamonfina Volcanic Complex, Caserta, Campania, Italy
- Serrabottini, Massa Marittima, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
- Triolet Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
- Viù Valley, Lanzo Valleys, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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