Funtana Raminosa copper mine, Gadoni

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and minerals

Nails and fittings

Also reported: bornite, azurite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Copper skarn in the Barbagia hills, worked from Nuragic antiquity to the 1980s

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.