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Parys Mountain, Anglesey

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: malachite, brochantite.

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 mine, secondary minerals

Historic copper mountain documented for chalcopyrite, pyrite and many secondary copper minerals.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Vivid but unstable pitsAcidic water, shafts

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