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Durango

Ojuela Mine, Mapimi

Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: Superb adamite (green, yellow), legrandite, wulfenite, aurichalcite, hemimorphite and rosasite..

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

Why this spot

Oxidized skarn/replacement

Type locality for legrandite and paradamite; one of Mexico's greatest specimen mines.

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