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Baia de Aries gold mine dumps

Gold ground Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
GoldGold

Also reported: sphalerite, galena.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), BLM Alaska (Public domain).

Why this spot

Centuries-old gold and base metal mine on the Aries valley, closed in the 2000s

Documented in Romanian mining records and collector accounts of Apuseni sulfosalts.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

unstable dumps, flooded workings

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