La Bessière Quarry
Saint-Genès-la-Tourette, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
A former Amethyst quarry producing various forms of Quartz.
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A very small quarry which was worked for quartz, amethyst, and chalcedony.
Most of the material from the site was collected in the 1970s, but I don’t have any information on when the site was worked from or until. A visit in 2014 showed the quarry was underwater.
Further reading
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
- 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
- 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
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