Calafuria
Livorno, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
Calafuria is a small area with several abandoned quarries, some ancient and some modern.
The site exploited a range of minerals – mindat lists 36 from the site across all of the quarries.
The quarries primarily exploited baryte, pyrite, and marcasite, as a part of the Macigno Formation.
The locale is now within a protected nature reserve, the Riserva naturale Calafuria.
A good writeup of the mineralogy of the site can be found linked below, or by googling for ‘Mineral assemblages, stable isotopes and fluid inclusions in ore veins from the Macigno Formation at Calafuria (Livorno Mountains, northern Tuscany, Italy)’.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-54312.html
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289882794_Mineral_assemblages_stable_isotopes_and_fluid_inclusions_in_ore_veins_from_the_Macigno_Formation_at_Calafuria_Livorno_Mountains_northern_Tuscany_Italy
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