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France, Occitanie

Costabonne Skarn (Pyrénées-Orientales), France

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: scheelite, vesuvianite.

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: scheelite skarn

Documented mindat tungsten skarn with scheelite, garnet and vesuvianite.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Altitude, remote terrain

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