Los Serranos Quarry

There are a number of minerals found at the site including augite, baryte, byssolite, calcite, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, datolite, epidote, grossular, gypsum, melanite, prehnite, quartz, scolecite, titanite, and tremolite.

Many specimens from the site were labelled clinozoisite, but this is inaccurate; they are epidote.

Further reading

• https://www.mindat.org/loc-3101.html
• https://www.academia.edu/37586042/La_epidota_no_clinozoisita_y_el_granate_andradita_de_la_cantera_de_Los_Serranos_Cabezo_Negro_Albatera_Alicante (Spanish language, regards the Clinozoisite/Epidote specimens)

If you are interested in other classic Spanish locales we may have stock from the following locales.

Spanish 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

• Cerro Patillas, Fuentes de Ebro, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
• La Tejera ravine, La Cuna hill, Montalbán, Teruel, Aragon, Spain
• Soriana Quarry, Estopiñán del Castillo, Huesca, Aragon, Spain

• La Cabaña, Berbes mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
• Moscona Mine, El Pontón de Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Asturias, Spain
• Villabona Mines (San Ismael; Santo Firme; Cucona), Villabona, Llanera, Asturias, Spain

• El Aila (La Lastra), Laredo, Cantabria, Spain
• Unión Campurriana Mines (La Presura Mines), Soto de Espinillla, Hermandad de Campoo de Suso, Cantabria, Spain

• Almadén Mine, Almadén, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
• Minglanilla, Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
• Nazarena Mine, Almuradiel, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

• Barruecopardo Mine, Barruecopardo, Salamanca, Castile and Leon, Spain
• La Fregeneda, Salamanca, Castile and Leon, Spain
• Palazuelo de las Cuevas, San Vicente de la Cabeza, Zamora, Castile and Leon, Spain
• Profunda Mine, Cármenes, León, Castile and Leon, Spain

• Atrevida Mine, Bosc de Poblet, Vimbodí i Poblet, Conca de Barberà, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
• Berta quarry and mine, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Vallès Occidental-Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
• Monsant Mines, Hortsavinyà, Tordera, Maresme, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
• Osor Mines, Osor, Selva, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
• Puig de la Banya de Boc volcano, Llorà, Sant Martí de Llémena, Catalonia, Spain
• Sant Corneli Quarry (Can Savoia), Sant Corneli volcano, Fogars de la Selva-Tordera, Selva-Maresme, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
• Serrana Mine (Manganese Mine), El Molar, Priorat, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
• Toron Mines, Roca del Toron, Espinavell, Molló, Ripollès, Girona, Catalonia, Spain

• Coto San Guillermo, Jerez de Caballeros, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
• Mirabel, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
• Monchi Mine, Burguillos del Cerro, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain

• Navajún, La Rioja, Spain

• Cabezo Negro de Tallante, Tallante, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
• Camp dels Ninots, Caldes de Malavella, Selva, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
• Eugenia Mine, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
• Herculano Mine, El Puntal, Campos de Golf area, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
• La Reconquistada claim, Pastrana, Mazarrón, Murcia, Spain
• Precaución Mine, Cabezo de San Ginés, El Estrecho de San Ginés, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
• San Camilo Mine, Vista Alegre, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
• San Timoteo-Humboldt Mines, Pico del Águila, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
• San Valentín Mine, La Unión, Murcia, Spain
• Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, Murcia, Spain
• Teresita Mine, Atamaría, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain

• Azcárate Quarry (Azkarate Quarry), Eugui, Esteríbar, Navarre, Spain

• Los Serranos Quarry, Albatera, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
• Terzaga ravine, Camporrobles, Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain

For the rest of our Spanish stock, see below.

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