Montcada Hill Quarry

Montcada i Reixac, Vallès Occidental, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

A former limestone quarry outside Barcelona, worked between 1917 and around 2009. It is now backfilled and part of a nature reserve.

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Also known as Turó de Montcada .

Mindat lists over 50 mineral species from the site, including some uncommon types – aluminocopiapite, calcioferrite, delvauxite, gibbsite, huntite, hydroxylapatite, jarosite, montgomeryite, tinticite, voltaite, whitlockite.

I actually had to look up quite a few of these!

Some interesting phosphate minerals, including variscite, which could be the source of some of the neolithic worked variscite minerals from Catalonia.

 

 

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