Sweden, Västmanland
Bastnäs Mines, Sweden
Mineral locality Inferred from historyGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso 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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