Ste Barbe vein

Known as ‘Ste Barbe Vein’ or ‘Les Montmins’, but I’ve found these specimens are often labelled as ‘Montmins Mine’, which is a little confusing when the mining district is also called Montmins. Better to use ‘Ste Barbe Vein, Montmins Mining District’.

Mindat lists over a hundred minerals from the site, including many uncommon species. The site is very well regarded amongst micro mineral and systematic mineral collectors.

The site does also produce radioactive minerals.

I have no idea when the site was worked, unfortunately. It’s possible this information is out there, but only available online in French.

Further reading

• https://www.mindat.org/loc-1669.html
• https://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/Frankreich/Auvergne-Rh%C3%B4ne-Alpes%2C%20Region/Allier%2C%20D%C3%A9partement/Montlu%C3%A7on%2C%20Arrondissement/Echassi%C3%A8res/Les%20Montmins%20%28Sainte%20Barbe%20filon%29

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

French locales

• Croix-de-Pallières, Saint-Félix-de-Pallières, Gard, France
• Gabe Gottes Mine, Sankt Jakob vein, Neuenberg, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Colmar-Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France
• La Bessière Quarry, Saint-Genès-la-Tourette, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
• Ste Barbe vein, Montmins mining district, Échassières, Vichy, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
• Tistoulet mine, Padern, Narbonne, Aude, Occitanie, France

For the rest of our French stock, see below.

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