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Rosen ore field, Medni Rid

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: zeolites.

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

Copper veins in Upper Cretaceous volcanics behind the Black Sea coast, mined until the 1990s

Documented Burgas district copper field known to Bulgarian collectors.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

open shafts

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