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Pedernales, Sud-Est
Aceitillar bauxite plateau
Mineral locality Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: bauxite, limonite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Karst bauxite on the Sierra de Bahoruco plateau mined by Alcoa from the 1950s to the 1980s
Documented bauxite district in Caribbean geological literature.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
remote plateau roads
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