Two mineralized outcrops, NNE of Saint-Pons village:
- On left bank of Saint-Pon torrent, on west side of La Farière crest
- On east side of La Farière crest, in La Valette torrent ravine
Siderite lenses interstratified in Callovian-Oxfordian calcareous clays of the "Black Earth" formation.
Centimetric chalcostibite crystals in siderite vugs.
Numerous acicular crystals of dadsonite in black calcite.
References:
- Cervelle, B. D. , Cesbron, F. , Sichère, M. C. and Dietrich, J. E. (1979): La chalcostibite et dadsonite de Saint-Pons, Alpes de Haute Provence, France. Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 601-605.
- Fourcault J-M. (1989): Un gisement riche en sulfosels dans les Alpes de Haute Provence, Le Cahier des Micromonteurs, n°4, 13-19
- Fourcault, J. M. (1993): The alpine sulfosalt occurence at Saint Pons, Haute-Provence (France). Mineralogical Record, 24(1), 41-44.
- Fourcault, J.M. (1997): Saint Pons, un gisement exceptionnel de sulfosels de Pb-Cu (Alpes de Haute Provence). Le Règne Minéral (15), 7-20.
- Fourcault, J. M. and Martaud, A. (1999): Zinkénite, Boulangérite et Dadsonite de Saint-Pons. Le Règne Minéral (29), 34-35.
- Fourcault, J.M. (2001): Célestite et calcite: Nouvelles découvertes à Saint-Pons, Barcelonnette (Alpes de Haute-Provence). Le Règne Minéral(40), 13-16.
Mineral List:21 entries listed. 20 valid minerals.
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