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Mount Pleasant tin-tungsten mine

Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: wolframite, cassiterite.

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

Why this spot

Granite-hosted tin, tungsten and indium deposit worked in the 1980s, dumps rich in unusual minerals

Documented deposit in Canadian mineralogy with collector interest.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

open workings, arsenic-bearing spoil

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