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Meldon Aplite Quarry, Okehampton

Crystal locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: axinite, danburite and petalite in aplite and skarn.

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

Why this spot

Aplite intruding Carboniferous slates near Dartmoor granite

Famous rare-mineral locality on Dartmoor edge.

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