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Rodalquilar Mining District, Níjar, Almería, Andalusia, Spain

(Rodalquilar, Níjar, Almería, Andalucía, España)

Epithermal high sulphidation gold deposit. Closed in 1966.
Note that the mining district is located in the Gata Cape Natural Park (Cabo de Gata).

Refs.:
- I. Queralt, M. Kanazirski & M. Gorova (1995): Adularia-sericite type wallrock alteration at the Maria Josefa gold mine: an example of low sulfidation epithermal ore deposit, within the volcanic Rodalquilar caldera (SE, Spain). Geologica Acta, 30(4), 91–100.
- A. Arribas, F. Hernández, M. A. Fernández Périz, J. Gröbner, G. Leal (2005): Rodalquilar - El oro del Capo del Ágata. BOCAMINA 15, 12-88.
- http://147.96.1.15/info/crismine/Pagina%20web/Contaminacion_Rodalquillar.pdf




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Mineral List:
  		•  Alunite
  		• Anglesite
  		• Apatite-(CaF)
  		• Arseniosiderite
  		• Arthurite
  		• Atacamite
  		• Azurite
  		• Baryte
  		• Beaverite
  		• Bornite
  		• Brackebuschite
  		• Brochantite
  		• Calaverite
  		• Calcite
  		• Calderónite
  		• Cerussite
  		• Chalcanthite
  		• 'Chalcedony
    var: Agate'
  		• Chalcopyrite
  		• Chenevixite
  		• Chlorargyrite
  		• Chrysocolla
  		• Clinoptilolite-Na
  		• Conichalcite
  		• Connellite
  		• Cornwallite
  		• Coronadite
  		• Covellite
  		• Dickite
  		• Digenite
  		• Enargite
  		• 'Ferrierite'
  		• Galena
  		• Goethite
  		• Gold
  		• Gypsum
  		• Halloysite
  		• Hematite
  		• Hidalgoite
  		• Illite
  		• Iodargyrite
  		• Jarosite
  		• Kaolinite
  		• Ktenasite
  		• Lavendulan
  		• Limonite
  		• Löllingite
  		• Malachite
  		• Manganite
  		• Metasideronatrite
  		• Mimetite
  		• Mottramite
  		• Olivenite
  		• Opal
  		• Orthoclase
       var: Adularia
  		• Osarizawaite
  		• Parnauite
  		• Pharmacosiderite
  		• Plumbojarosite
  		• Pyrite
  		• Pyromorphite
  		• Pyrophyllite
  		• Quartz
  		• Rodalquilarite (TL)
  		• Scorodite
  		• 'Sericite'
  		• Silver
  		• Smithsonite
  		• Sphalerite
  		• Svanbergite
  		• Tellurium
  		• Tennantite
  		• Tetrahedrite
  		• Vanadinite
  		• Woodhouseite
  		• Wulfenite
  		• Zunyite


    78 entries listed. 73 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

    Localities in this Region:
    Spain
     
    • Andalusia
      • Almería
        • Níjar
          • Rodalquilar mining District
    Spain
     
    • Andalusia
      • Almería
        • Níjar
          • Rodalquilar mining District

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