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Cobalt Silver District

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: cobaltite, erythrite (pink cobalt bloom), niccolite, dyscrasite on dumps.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

Proterozoic Nipissing diabase veins

One of the world's great native-silver camps; erythrite blooms are a collector target.

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