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Huehuetenango
San Ildefonso Ixtahuacan antimony mines
Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: stibnite, scheelite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Stibnite and scheelite veins in the Cuchumatanes worked at intervals since the 1900s
Documented antimony-tungsten district in Guatemalan geological literature.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
unstable workings
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