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Montpalau, Pineda de Mar, Maresme, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Abandoned quarry about 2 km north of Pineda de Mar, close to the C-32 highway from Barcelona to Tordera. The geology of the site consists in a Paleozoic sequence of schists, slates and quartzites (Ordovician), black slates and graphite schists (Silurian) and limestones (Silurian-Devonian). The series was intruded by a granodiorite pluton during Hercynian orogeny (Upper Carboniferous – Lower Permian). Contact metamorphism produced a metasomatic skarn mineral assemblage.





Map Reference: 41°38'45"N , 2°40'30"E

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Mineral List:
'Apatite Supergroup'
'Apophyllite'
Aragonite
Biotite
'Calamine'
Calcite
Chalcanthite
'Chlorite Group'
Delvauxite
Goethite
Graphite
Gypsum
Halotrichite
Hematite
Hydrozincite
Jarosite
Laumontite
Limonite
Orthoclase
Phlogopite
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
Pyrrhotite
Smithsonite
Sphalerite


25 entries listed. 19 valid minerals.

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