Bampfylde Mine

North Molton, North Devon, Devon, England, UK

An abandoned copper/gold/iron mine, operating between the 17th and 19th centuries – but potentially as early as the 13th century!

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Mindat lists twenty minerals from the site including various copper ores and copper minerals – brochantite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, connellite, covellite, cuprite, langite, malachite, and pseudomalachite. Tiny flakes of native gold from the site are uncommon but not unheard of.

There are good writeups of the site on the Exmoor HER and Devon in focus sites linked below.

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