Le Cetine di Cotorniano mine

It’s worth noting that while the mine is best known for needle-like stibnite specimens, it is a little more interesting than that geologically speaking.

The site produced nearly 90 minerals, as well as being the type locality for seven minerals – batoniite, brizziite, cetineite, dacostaite, nannoniite, onoratoite, and rosenbergite – not exactly well known minerals outside of the systematic mineral collectors field, but still.

There is a fantastic writeup of the site linked below, a PDF report on the ascuoladiopencoesione.it website.

Further reading

• https://www.mindat.org/loc-2164.html
• https://www.ascuoladiopencoesione.it/sites/default/files/elaborato_creativo_pdf/Le%20Cetine%20di%20Cotorniano.pdf
• https://web.archive.org/web/20240510134213/https://www.ascuoladiopencoesione.it/sites/default/files/elaborato_creativo_pdf/Le%20Cetine%20di%20Cotorniano.pdf (backup of the PDF above)

If you are interested in other classic Italian locales we may have stock from the following locales.

Italian locales

• Ala Valley, Lanzo Valleys, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
• Alpe Machetto Mine, Cascine Machetto, Quittengo, Campiglia Cervo, Biella Province, Piedmont, Italy
• Calafuria, Livorno, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
• Gambatesa Mine, Reppia, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
• Le Cetine di Cotorniano mine, Chiusdino, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy
• Levane, Bucine, Arezzo Province, Tuscany, Italy
• Libiola Mine, Sestri Levante, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
• 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

For the rest of our Italian stock, see below.

Italy