La Bessière Quarry
Saint-Genès-la-Tourette, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
A former Amethyst quarry producing various forms of Quartz.
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A very small quarry which was worked for quartz, amethyst, and chalcedony.
Most of the material from the site was collected in the 1970s, but I don’t have any information on when the site was worked from or until. A visit in 2014 showed the quarry was underwater.
Further reading
If you are interested in other classic French locales we may have stock from the following locales.
French locales
- Croix-de-Pallières, Saint-Félix-de-Pallières, Gard, France
- La Bessière Quarry, Saint-Genès-la-Tourette, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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