Cerro Minado Mines
Cuesta Alta, Huércal-Overa, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
The Cerro Minado mines are ancient copper and cobalt mines which were worked off and on since ancient times, primarily for copper.
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The mines produce over 80 mineral species, including the best quality erythrite in Spain – and some of the absolute best specimens of bobkingite and capgaronnite in the world.
The site produces some fantastic microminerals, with mindat hosting excellent photos of well developed connellite, olivenite, adamite, etc.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-241637.html
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268146967_Cerro_Minado_Huercal-Overa_Almeria
If you are interested in other local specimens, we may have stock from the following locales:
Andalusia- 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
- 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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