Portugal, Guarda
Panasqueira Mine
Crystal locality Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: Wolframite, apatite (blue-green and purple), and rare phosphates from the working tungsten mine.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Variscan hydrothermal vein
One of the world's premier specimen mines for apatite and wolframite.
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