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Bastnäs Mines, Sweden

Mineral locality Inferred from historyGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: cerite, bastnäsite, allanite, magnetite.

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: REE skarn, type locality

Bastnäs is the type locality for cerite and bastnäsite.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Old workings, radioactivity in REE ore

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