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Albania, Lezhë County

Kurbnesh copper mine, Mirdita

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: epidote.

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

Mountain copper mine of the Mirdita district worked in the communist era

Documented in Albanian mining registers of the copper belt.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

remote mountain roads, old workings

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