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France, Occitanie

Saint-Laurent-le-Minier, France

Mineral locality Inferred from historyGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: smithsonite, hemimorphite.

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: zinc-lead district (smithsonite)

Well-documented mindat district (La Sanguinède, Les Malines) for smithsonite, fluorite and calcite.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Old workings, heavy-metal dumps

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