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Jalisco
Autlan manganese district
Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: manganese oxides, braunite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Stratabound manganese ores in Cretaceous rocks that supplied Mexico's ferroalloy industry from the 1950s
Documented manganese district in Mexican geological survey literature.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
old workings
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