Praborna Mine

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.

Further reading

• https://www.mindat.org/loc-4543.html
• https://www.alexstrekeisen.it/english/meta/alurgite.php

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

Italian locales

• Gambatesa Mine, Reppia, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
• Praborna Mine, Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy

For the rest of our Italian stock, see below.

Italy