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Rhineland-Palatinate, Rheinland-Pfalz

Caspar quarry, Bellerberg (Ettringen), Eifel

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: afwillite, thaumasite, zeolites.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Quaternary tephrite lava

Type locality of ettringite; classic rare-mineral Eifel quarry.

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