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Linares-La Carolina lead district

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: galena, cerussite, pyromorphite.

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

Why this spot

One of Europe's great lead fields, mined from Roman times to the 1980s

Extensively documented Jaen mining landscape with headframes across the hills.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

open shafts

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