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Avoca Mines, County Wicklow

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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

Ordovician volcanogenic massive sulphide

Large historic Irish copper mining district.

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