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Allihies Copper Mines, Beara, County Cork

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: malachite, 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

Devonian Old Red Sandstone, copper-quartz veins

Famous Beara Peninsula copper mines; Allihies Copper Mine Museum.

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