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Ireland, Leinster

Tara mine, Navan

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: sphalerite, galena, marcasite (trade specimens).

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

Why this spot

Europe's largest zinc mine, worked in Carboniferous limestone since 1977

Extensively documented Irish orebody.

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