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Devon Great Consols, Tavistock, Devon

Mineral locality Inferred from historyPermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: scorodite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: copper/arsenic mine dumps

Major historic copper-arsenic mine documented for chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite and secondary arsenates.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Arsenic-rich dumpsShafts, contaminated ground

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