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Beauvoir quarry, Echassières, Ebreuil, Allier, Auvergne, France

(Carrière de Beauvoir, Echassières, Ebreuil, Allier, Auvergne, France)

Active kaolinite quarry in albite-lepidolite granite, albitites and greisens. Located NW of the La Bosse mine, about 2 km ESE of Echassières.
The mineralogy is similar to that of the nearby Les Montmins Mine.

Access is prohibited (only during working hours?).

Ref.:
http://www.strahlen.org/vp/fr/beauvoir/





Mineral List:
  		•  Albite
  		• Amblygonite
  		• 'Apatite'
  		• Apatite-(CaOH)
    var: Carbonate-rich Apatite-(CaOH)
  		• Arsenopyrite
  		• Beryl
  		• Bismite
  		• Bismuth
  		• Bismutite
  		• Cassiterite
  		• Cerussite
  		• Chalcocite
  		• Chalcopyrite
  		• Chalcosiderite
  		• Churchite-(Y)
  		• Columbite-(Fe)
  		• Cryptomelane
  		• Ferberite
  		• Fluorite
  		• Galena
  		• Goethite
  		• Gorceixite
  		• Goyazite
  		• Hematite
  		• Hemimorphite
  		• Hinsdalite
  		• Hydroxylherderite
  		• Iodargyrite
  		• Kaolinite
  		• Kidwellite
  		• Lepidolite
  		• Mawsonite
  		• Microlite
  		• 'Monazite'
  		• Montebrasite
  		• Natrojarosite
  		• Plumbogummite
  		• Pyromorphite
  		• Quartz
  		• Scheelite
  		• Scorodite
  		• Sphalerite
  		• Stannite
  		• Stolzite
  		• Strengite
  		• Tennantite
  		• Topaz
  		• Torbernite
  		• Turquoise
  		• Variscite
  		• Varlamoffite
  		• Wavellite
  		• Zavaritskite


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