La Encontrada Mine

Mindat lists 27 minerals from the site, including azurite, calcite, conichalcite, erythrite, and malachite.

I wasn’t able to find too much information on the mine, but did find documentation showing it was open and active in 1858.

Further reading

• https://www.mindat.org/loc-11534.html
• https://archivogeneral.carm.es/archivoGeneral/arg.detalle_documento?idDetalle=3829675 (Spanish language)
• https://archivogeneral.carm.es/archivoGeneral/arg.detalle_documento?idDetalle=3829675 (English, via Google translate)

If you are interested in other local specimens, we may have stock from the following locales:

• Cala Mines, Cala, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain
• Cerro Minado Mines, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
• Cortijo de la mina, Conil de la Frontera, Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain
• Crater El Hoyazo, Níjar, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
• El Conjuro Mines, Busquístar, Granada, Andalusia, Spain
• Filón Sur open pit (Filón Sur Mine), Tharsis Mines, Tharsis, Alosno, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain
• La Encontrada Mine, Molvizar, Granada, Andalusia, Spain
• La Virgen Mine, Andújar, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain
• San Andrés Mine, Espiel, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain

Alternately, try browsing by province: • Andalusia • Aragon • Asturias • Canary Islands • Cantabria • Castile-La Mancha • Castile and Leon • Catalonia • Extremadura • La Rioja • Murcia • Navarre • Valencia •

For the rest of our stock from the whole of Spain, see below.

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