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Caras-Severin, CaraČ™-Severin County

Moldova Noua copper district

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: malachite.

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

Banatite copper skarn and porphyry mining on the Danube, active through the 1990s

Banat mining district documented in Romanian and Serbian geological literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

tailings dust, unstable ground

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