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France, Pays de la Loire

La Lucette antimony-gold mine

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
GoldGold

Also reported: stibnite, berthierite.

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

Why this spot

Once Europe's leading antimony-gold mine, worked near Laval to 1934

Documented Armorican Sb-Au deposit; stibnite specimens are classics.

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