Puig de la Banya de Boc volcano
Llorà, Sant Martí de Llémena, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
A pleistocene era volcanic cinder cone from approximately 120,000 years ago.
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The site produces olivine-pyroxene specimens, often known as peridotite, in basalt strombolian projection bombs – they were fired from the volcano and then cooled under the right conditions to form green gemmy crystals.
Mindat lists 8 minerals including olivine and pyroxene group minerals.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-49992.html
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377027321002894
If you are interested in other local specimens, we may have stock from the following locales:
Catalonia- 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
- Montcada Hill Quarry, Montcada i Reixac, Vallès Occidental, 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
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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