Haapaluoma pegmatite
Peräseinäjoki, Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland
Haapaluoma is a pegmatite deposit and former quarry of the same name, near Seinäjoki.
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Haapaluoma was mined for feldspar between 1961 and 1997, and is now abandoned and flooded. The quarry is used as a diving site with a sunken boat, and can be accessed by the public via the tourist information department nearby.
The quarry produced a range of specimens including beryl, elbaite, fluorapatite, muscovite, schorl, spessartine, kunzite and rubellite.
Some of the tourmaline species from the site are really rather gemmy.