Camp dels Ninots
Caldes de Malavella, Selva, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Camp dels Ninots is an unusual locale producing menilite opal.
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The name of the locale roughly translates to ‘camp of the puppets’ or ‘field of the dolls’. I would imagine the menilite and folk tales around it led to the name of the site.
As far as I’m aware the site is only known for menilite; Mindat does list a couple of minerals but with no other photographs.
Nearby locations have revealed excellent quality fossils and mineralised bones from the upper Pliocene which are, to be honest, more interesting than the mineral specimens from the site – providing an excellent cross section of an ecosystem including amphibians, bovines, turtles, frogs, fish, rodents – as well as fruits, leaves, and trunks of trees and bushes.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-131205.html
- https://www.femturisme.cat/en/routes/the-mystery-of-the-camp-dels-ninots
- https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_dels_Ninots
- https://www.iphes.cat/camp-dels-ninots
If you are interested in other local specimens, we may have stock from the following locales:
Murcia- Cabezo Negro de Tallante, Tallante, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
- Camp dels Ninots, Caldes de Malavella, Selva, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
- Eugenia Mine, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
- Herculano Mine, El Puntal, Campos de Golf area, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
- La Reconquistada claim, Pastrana, Mazarrón, Murcia, Spain
- Precaución Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, El Estrecho de San Ginés, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
- San Camilo Mine, Vista Alegre, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
- San Timoteo-Humboldt Mines, Pico del Águila, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
- San Valentín Mine, La Unión, Murcia, Spain
- Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Murcia, Spain
- Teresita Mine, Atamaría, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
- Victoria Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, El Estrecho de San Ginés, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
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