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Parys Mountain, Anglesey

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Also reported: sphalerite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Ordovician-Silurian volcanogenic massive sulphide

Once the world's largest copper mine; striking coloured spoil.

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