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New Brunswick
Albert Mines albertite workings
Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: albertite, oil shale.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Type locality of albertite, a lustrous solid hydrocarbon mined here in the 1850s
Documented type locality in Maritime mineralogy.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
overgrown shafts
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