Etang de Reliez
Lachaux, Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
A former uranium mine known amongst collectors for micro specimens of parsonsite.
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Mindat lists 33 minerals from the site, including radioactive minerals such as Autunite, Dewindtite, Parsonsite, and Torbernite.
In French, the site is known as ‘Mine de l’Etang de Reliez’. It was worked between 1951 and 1954 as part of the Lachaux concession, which included several other sites.
The Etang de Reliez site was fully remediated by 2002, including backfilling and landscaping. It does appear that there may still be a tailings pile on the site.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-12931.html
- https://www.puy-de-dome.gouv.fr/contenu/telechargement/19113/156810/file/63sis08152-ris_anciensiteminieruranifere_etangdureliez_gagnol-2.pdf (French Language)
If you are interested in other classic French locales we may have stock from the following locales.
French locales
- Beauvoir quarry, Échassières, Vichy, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Cap Garonne Mine, Le Pradet, Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
- Col de Pré Guittard, Arnayon, Die, Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Croix-de-Pallières, Saint-Félix-de-Pallières, Gard, France
- Etang de Reliez, Lachaux, Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Gabe Gottes Mine, Sankt Jakob vein, Neuenberg, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Colmar-Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France
- La Bessière Quarry, Saint-Genès-la-Tourette, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- La Chazotte mine, La Talaudiere, Saint-Étienne, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- La Rieille Mine, La Rieille district, Collobrières, Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
- La Verrière, Les Ardillats, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Les Molérats Mine, Saint-Prix, Autun, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
- Mont Denise, Espaly-Saint-Marcel, Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Mont Semiol, Châtelneuf, Montbrison, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Plan-du-Lac, Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Puy de Menoyre, Menet, Mauriac, Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Ste Barbe vein, Montmins mining district, Échassières, Vichy, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Tistoulet mine, Padern, Narbonne, Aude, Occitanie, France
For the rest of our French stock, see below.
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