Germanasca Valley, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italyi

Regional Level Types
Germanasca Valley	Valley
Metropolitan City of Turin	Metropolitan City
Piedmont	Region
Italy	- not defined -

The valley, known in the past as San Martino Valley or Valley of Saint Martin, is drained by Germanasca stream, a right affluent of the Chisone.

The main mineral commodity of the valley is talc, whose extraction in the past centuries was essentially organized in the exploitation of single outcrops, by quarries scattered through all the productive zone but of limited proportions and generally familiar conduction. The unprepared old miners, the often unregular course of the veins and the rather elevated mine location, caused the disarrenging development of the extractive activity. A true and productive mining activity developed only from the early 20th century. The now abandoned mines of Envie, Sapatlè, Pleinet, Comba la Fracia, and Malzas are located along the right slope of the valley, while the large Fontane deposit is still exploited by the company Luzenac Val Chisone (Nuova Fontane or Rodoretto mine near Pomeifré).

Around Fontane, the talc embedding rocks are essentially marbles, micaschist, gneisses and rare metabasite, all of them refered to the Dora-Maira Unit (Borghi et al., 1985; Borghi & Sandrone, 1990).

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