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Portugal, Braga

Borralha Mine (Montalegre), Portugal

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: wolframite, scheelite.

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: tungsten mine

Documented mindat former tungsten mine producing wolframite, scheelite and sulfides.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Old workings, remote

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