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France, Occitanie

Salau Mine (Couflens), France

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: scheelite, pyrrhotite.

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: tungsten (scheelite) mine

Documented former tungsten mine on mindat with scheelite, arsenopyrite and skarn minerals.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Remote, old workings, arsenic minerals

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