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Manchester bauxite plateaus

Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: bauxite, gibbsite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Terra rossa bauxite filling karst pockets of the Manchester highlands, mined since the 1950s

Documented in Jamaican geological survey literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

haul roads, sinkholes

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