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Benguet, Cordillera

Lepanto mine, Mankayan

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
GoldGold

Also reported: enargite, luzonite.

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

Why this spot

Enargite-gold deposit worked since Spanish times, type region for luzonite

Classic Philippine ore deposit in mineralogical literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

underground workings, arsenic ores

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