Atrevida Mine, Vimbodí, Conca de Barberà, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

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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.

In 2006 the town of Vimbodí changed its name to Vimbodí i Poblet

Mineral List

Acanthite Andalusite Anglesite Annabergite Azurite Baryte Bismuth Bismuthinite Calcite Cerussite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group' Erythrite

Fluorite Galena Gersdorffite Goethite Goslarite Hematite Heterogenite var: Heubachite Hydrozincite Illite Kaolinite Limonite Linnaeite Malachite Marcasite

Maucherite Millerite Mimetite Muscovite var: Sericite Nickeline Olivenite Pearceite Pharmacolite Pharmacosiderite Polybasite Proustite Pyrite Pyromorphite Quartz

Quartz var: Jasper Rammelsbergite Siderite Siegenite Silver Skutterudite Sphalerite Tellurobismuthite Tetrahedrite Vaesite Villamaninite ?

53 entries listed. 48 valid minerals.

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