Mont-des-Groseillers
Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium
Mont-des-Groseillers is a famous mineral collecting locality, particularly amongst micro mineral collectors. Collection from the site is no longer permitted.
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The site was found during the replacement of a canal, as Carboniferous sedimentary rocks were exposed, with a good amount of interesting iron bearing sulphate and phosphate minerals.
Mindat lists 43 mineral species from the site, including one for which it is the type locality – ferristrunzite. Other especially interesting minerals from this locale include beraunite and ferroberaunite, cacoxenite, and a strontium bearing form of crandallite.
If you are interested in other classic Belgian locales we may have stock from the following locales.
Belgian locales
- Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Bernissart, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium
- Saint-Paul mine, Welkenraedt, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
- Thier des Carrières, Cahay, Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium
For the rest of our Belgian stock, see below.