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Cap Garonne Mine (Le Pradet), France

Mineral locality Inferred from historyProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: malachite, azurite, brochantite, cyanotrichite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: famous copper mine museum

Type locality on mindat for several rare copper phosphates/arsenates (e.g. cyanotrichite, mixite associates).

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Underground workings

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