BaryteAtrevida Mine, Vimbodí, Conca de Barberà, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Photo: David Soler Latitude: 41°21'23"N
Longitude: 1°4'45"E
Mina La Atrevida
Ba-(F-Pb-Zn-As-Ni-Ag) vertical lode (1-2 m thick) in Carboniferous slates, sandstones and quartzites (turbiditic sequence). Old mine galleries at different levels.
Alpine fault (containing mineralized veins) at the contact between Prades Mt massif and the Cenozoic sediments of Ebro and Prelitoral basins.
Atrevida vein is 4 kilometers long, 8 meters thick and 200 meters deep.
Quartz replaces barite in the deep levels.
References
Revista d'investigacions geològiques 1985, 40:87-102
Econ Geol (1992) 87:142-153
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