La Virgen Mine

Mindat lists 15 mineral species from the site, including baryte, cacoxenite, chalcanthite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, cuprite, libethenite, linarite, malachite, pseudomalachite and torbernite.

However, Mineralesweb lists over 40 – unfortunately, I am unable to access the list of sources they provide – Arribas Moreno, A.: “Mineralogía y metalogenia de los yacimientos españoles de uranio:La Virgen. Andújar (Jaén)”.

I suspect Mineralesweb is more accurate in their list, though – certainly more uranium minerals than Mindat lists, and descriptions of their occurences within the mine.

Further reading

• https://www.mindat.org/loc-227782.html
• https://www.mineralesweb.es/spain/yac/jae_02.htm (Spanish language)
• https://www.mineralesweb.es/spain/yac/jae_02.htm (English, via Google translate)

If you are interested in other local specimens, we may have stock from the following locales:

• 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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