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Limenaria calamine mines, Thasos

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: smithsonite, hemimorphite, goethite.

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

Zinc carbonate and iron ores mined above Limenaria from antiquity to the 1960s

Documented in Greek mining records; the Palataki headquarters ruin marks the district.

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