Mont Denise

Mindat lists 25 mineral species from the site, including some uncommon specimens – chayesite, osumilite, roedderite.

Of particularly interest to mineral collectors here might be the needle-like paramorphs of quartz after quartz-beta.

Further reading

• https://www.mindat.org/loc-20463.html
• https://www.geowiki.fr/index.php?title=Denise

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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