Lomba dos Pianos quarry
Magoito, São João das Lampas e Terrugem, Sintra, Lisbon, Portugal
An abandoned Basalt quarry on the Portuguese coast, not too far from Lisbon.
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Known in Portuguese as ‘Pedreira da Lomba dos Pianos’.
There is a fantastic writeup of the site in Portuguese on the Museu Coleção Martins da Pedra website linked below. A translation of it appears on Mindat, too.
The site is part of the area known as the Volcanic Complex of Lisbon.
The site produces a range of zeolite minerals, including analcime, chabazite, heulandite, natrolite, stilbite, and thomsonite.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-55511.html
- https://www.museu-coleção-martins-da-pedra.pt/zeolitos-de-portugal/
- https://www.mindat.org/article.php/1608/Zeolites%40Portugal
If you are interested in other classic Portuguese locales we may have stock from the following locales.
Portuguese locales
- Cubos-Mesquitela-Mangualde area, Mangualde (Mesquitela e Cunha Alta), Viseu, Portugal
- Lomba dos Pianos quarry, Magoito, São João das Lampas e Terrugem, Sintra, Lisbon, Portugal
- Panasqueira Mines, Covilhã, Portugal
For the rest of our Portuguese stock, see below.
Portugal
Minerals from Portugal