CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
803 Italy (Tuscany) 42.44.18 N -- 010.25.55 E Sassi Neri Fe
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Sassi Neri
Political location(s): Italy; Province or state: Tuscany; Subprovince or locality: Elba Island; Nearest community: Rome (195 km 300°)
Deposit clan (type): Iron Skarn-type
Geologic province: Alpine Orogen
Geologic subprovince: Apennines
Geologic district: Northern Apennines
Deposit object located: mine site
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Late Miocene (mineralization)
Late Miocene (related magmatics)
Tectonic setting: continental unstated-unqualified; extensional; Formal name: Late Miocene extension and related plutonism (related igneous rocks)
Regional tectonic structure: north-south trending horst and graben structure of Late Miocene age (mineralization localized in a down-faulted carbonate wedge bounded by the faults N-S faults in Calamita schists) Tectonic structure name: Late Miocene extensional faults
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate (Mesozoic carbonate wedge in late Paleozoic Calamita schists); Depositional setting: carbonate platform; Metamorphic grade: greenschist
Host rock stratigraphy:Complex II of Elba Island
Related igneous rocks: (1) intrusive; quartz monzonite-monzogabbro suite (quartz monzonite pluton, poorly exposed but its areal extent detected from subsurface work ); Initials: Porto Azzurro pluton; Magma series: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental
(2) intrusive; quartz monzonite-monzogabbro suite (large pluton exposed 10 km west of deposit); Initials: Monte Capanne granodioritic pluton; Magma series: calc-alkaline; Depositional setting: continental
Mineralogy: (gangue): grossularite, pargasite, tremolite, ilvaite, pyrite, calcite
(mineralization): magnetite
References:
Duenkel, I.; Kuhlemann, J.; Nohlen, U., 2003
Iron Ore Formation and Neotectonic Evolution in Elba (Tuscany, Italy) during Messinian Plutonism
Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie. Abhandlungen, Volume 230, p. 391 - 407

Zitzmann, A., 1977
The Iron Deposits of Italy
in The Iron Ore Deposits of Europe and Adjacent Areas: Explanatory Notes to the International Map of the Iron Ore Deposits of Europe, 1:2,500,000 (Text and Figures), Edited by Walther, H. W.; Zitzmann, A., International Geological Congress, Commission for the Geological Map of the World, Subcommission for the Metallogenic Map of the World, Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Postfach 51 01 53, D-3000 Hannover 51, Volume I, 418 p, p. 209 - 218

Zitzmann, A. Editor(s)), 1978
The Iron Ore Deposits of Europe and Adjacent Areas: Explanatory Notes to the International Map of the Iron Ore Deposits of Europe, 1:2,500,000 (Lists and Tables)
International Geological Congress, Commission for the Geological Map of the World, Subcommission for the Metallogenic Map of the World, Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Postfach 51 01 53, D-3000 Hannover 51, Volume II, 386 p.


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