Montcada Hill Quarry
Montcada i Reixac, Vallès Occidental, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
A former limestone quarry outside Barcelona, worked between 1917 and around 2009. It is now backfilled and part of a nature reserve.
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Also known as Turó de Montcada .
Mindat lists over 50 mineral species from the site, including some uncommon types – aluminocopiapite, calcioferrite, delvauxite, gibbsite, huntite, hydroxylapatite, jarosite, montgomeryite, tinticite, voltaite, whitlockite.
I actually had to look up quite a few of these!
Some interesting phosphate minerals, including variscite, which could be the source of some of the neolithic worked variscite minerals from Catalonia.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-55716.html
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373648973_El_Turo_de_Montcada_Montcada_i_Reixac_Historia_mineria_i_mineralogia_Mineralogistes_de_Catalunya_Vol_7_Nr_1_1997_pp_34-55
- https://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/Spanien/Katalonien%20%28Catalu%C3%B1a%29/Barcelona%2C%20Provinz/Vall%C3%A8s%20Occidental%2C%20Comarca/Montcada%20i%20Reixac%2C%20Municipio/Tur%C3%B3%20de%20Montcada
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- Montcada Hill Quarry, Montcada i Reixac, Vallès Occidental, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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