Former worksite of the Montevecchio lead-zinc-silver mining complex at Guspini, identified in IGEA technical documentation as the cantiere di Pozzo Centrale.
Pozzo Centrale is recorded in IGEA technical documentation as a worksite within the Miniera di Montevecchio at località Montevecchio, Comune di Guspini, Sardinia. Although the name does not appear prominently in the main visitor-facing descriptions of Montevecchio, IGEA documents identify a cantiere di Pozzo Centrale with an officina, sala argano and associated yard areas, and a separate plan set includes a Tavola 4 dedicated to Pozzo Centrale. The site should therefore be treated as a component of the Montevecchio mining complex rather than as an unsubstantiated or misplaced Silius record.
Its detailed operational chronology has not yet been established from the consulted sources, but the coordinates fall within the Montevecchio area and the name is supported by IGEA site-management documentation.
The Miniera di Montevecchio was one of Sardinia’s major lead-zinc-silver mining complexes, extending across the Guspini and Arbus area and organised through a series of shafts, galleries, processing areas and surface works. The better-known Montevecchio sites include the Sant’Antonio, Sartori, Sanna, Amsicora, Fais and Casargiu shaft areas, many of which dominate the public heritage narrative of the mine. The record previously attached to mine_id 728 was treated as unprocessable because the name Pozzo Centrale was not found among those better-known Montevecchio shaft names and because a separate Pozzo Centrale is documented at the Silius / Muscadroxiu fluorite mine. Further checking shows that this conclusion was too strong.
IGEA documentation confirms that Pozzo Centrale is a name used within the Montevecchio site. A technical specification for service works lists the Miniera di Montevecchio at località Montevecchio, Comune di Guspini, and includes a cantiere di Pozzo Centrale with an officina, a sala argano and associated yard areas. A related plan document for the same service context includes Tavola 4 — Pozzo Centrale. This indicates that Pozzo Centrale was a recognised worksite or shaft-related area within the managed Montevecchio complex, even if it is not one of the better-known public visitor-route names.
The available evidence is not yet sufficient to provide a full shaft-specific operating history for Pozzo Centrale. It has not been possible from the consulted public sources to establish its date of sinking, depth, exact function, or relationship to the main named Montevecchio shafts. The safest interpretation is therefore to treat the site as a documented Montevecchio worksite whose precise historical role remains to be clarified from archive plans, IGEA records, or field inspection. It should no longer be marked as unsubstantiated, but it should retain a review note explaining that the name is supported by IGEA technical documentation rather than by the standard public histories of Montevecchio.