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Tavistock / Devon Great Consols, Devon

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Also reported: scorodite.

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

Devonian killas, copper-arsenic lodes

Once the world's greatest copper and arsenic mine.

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