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Southern Europe, Piedmont
Brosso
Valchiusella pyrite mine dumps
Mineral locality Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and minerals
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: siderite, hematite, magnetite, anatase and micromount species.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Iron and pyrite mines below Monte Gregorio worked from the Middle Ages to the mid 1900s, contact zone of the Traversella pluton
Long-running AMI collector forum thread documents recent finds from the Brosso dumps; mindat photo gallery for the locality
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Unstable spoil heapsHidden shafts and adits, forested steep terrain
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.