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Gualba quarries, Gualba de Dalt, Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

(Pedreres de Gualba)

Skarn due to contact metamorphism of Hercynian granodiorite and biotite granite into Cambrian marbles. Primary Fe-Cu-Mo-Pb-Zn sulfides and oxides accompanied by hydrous and anhydrous calc-silicates.
Several quarries and subterranean galleries wich extract carbonates for industrial use are distributed along the two sides of Gualba river, about 10 km north of the town of Sant Celoni.




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Mineral List:
  		•  Actinolite
  		• Albite
  		• Andradite
  		• Antigorite
  		• Aragonite
  		• Azurite
  		• Biotite
  		• Bornite
  		• Brucite
  		• Calcite
  		• Chalcocite
  		• Chalcopyrite
  		• 'Chlorite Group'
  		• Chondrodite
  		• Chrysotile
  		• Covellite
  		• Diopside
  		• Dolomite
  		• Epidote
  		• Fluorite
  		• Forsterite
  		• Galena
  		• Goethite
  		• Greenockite
  		• Grossular
  		• Hedenbergite
  		• Hematite
  		• Inesite
  		• Magnetite
  		• Malachite
  		• Molybdenite
  		• Muscovite
  		• Nickeline
  		• Orthoclase
  		• Powellite
  		• Prehnite
  		• Pyrite
  		• Pyrrhotite
  		• Quartz
  		• Scheelite
  		• 'Serpentine Group'
  		• Sphalerite
  		• Talc
  		• Tremolite
  		• Vesuvianite
  		• Wollastonite


    46 entries listed. 43 valid minerals.

    Localities in this Region:
    Spain
     
    • Catalonia
      • Barcelona
        • Vallès Oriental
          • Gualba de Dalt
            • Gualba quarries

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