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Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon

Mineral locality Inferred from historyGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: hematite.

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: gold-in-calcite veins

Famous mindat locality for native gold, palladium minerals and calcite in Devonian limestone.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Rocky foreshore, tides

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