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Beauvoir quarry, Échassières, Ébreuil, Allier, Auvergne, France

Carrière de Beauvoir, Échassières, Ébreuil, Allier, Auvergne, France

Active, huge kaolinite quarry in albite-lepidolite granite ('Beauvoir 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, except that arsenates are extremely rare in the quarry.
Excellent wavellite, variscite and plumbogummite come from here.

Access is prohibited (only during working hours?).

Mineral List

Albite
Amblygonite
'Apatite'
Arsenopyrite
Bariopharmacosiderite
Baryte
Beryl
Bismite
Bismuth
Bismutite
Brazilianite
Bromargyrite ?
Cassiterite
Cerussite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chalcosiderite
Childrenite
Churchite-(Y)
Columbite-(Fe)
Columbite-(Mn)
Crandallite ?
Cryptomelane
Ferberite
Fluorcalciopyrochlore
Fluorite
'Fornacite-Vauquelinite Series'
Galena
Goethite
Gorceixite
Goyazite
Hematite
Hemimorphite
Hinsdalite
Hydroxylapatite
var: Carbonate-rich Hydroxylapatite

Hydroxylherderite
Iodargyrite
Jarosite
Kaolinite
'K Feldspar'
Kidwellite
Lacroixite
Lepidocrocite
Lepidolite
Mawsonite
Microlite Group
'Monazite'
Montebrasite
Muscovite
Natrojarosite
Plumbogummite
Pseudomalachite ?
Pyromorphite
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Reichenbachite ?
Scheelite
Scorodite
Scorzalite
Silver
Sphalerite
Stannite
Stolzite
Strengite
Tantalite-(Mn)
Tennantite
Topaz
Torbernite
'Tourmaline'
Turquoise
Uraninite
'Uranpyrochlore (of Hogarth 1977)'
Variscite
'Varlamoffite'
Wardite ?
Wavellite
Zavaritskite
Zircon


78 entries listed. 69 valid minerals.

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References

DE ROSEN, A. (1965): Évolution continue d'un massif granitique et succession minérale : le massif des Colettes (Échassieres, Allier). Première partie : Granites et micaschistes. Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 88, 678-687.

de ROSEN, A. (1966): Évolution continue d'un massif granitique et succession minérale: le massif des Colettes (Échassières, Allier). Deuxième partie: filons, altérations et minéralisations. Bull. Minéral. Franç. Minéral. Cristallogr., 89, 155-176.

Rucheng Wang, Monchoux, P., and Fontan, F. (1991): Zoning in columbite crystals from the Beauvoir granite, Massif Central, France: types, composition and constraints on their formation. Acta Mineralogica Sinica 11(3), 225-233 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Rucheng Wang, Fontan, F., and Monchoux, P. (1994): Study on Pyrochlore-Group Minerals from the Beauvoir Granite, France. Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica 13(2) (in Chinese with English abstract).

RAIMBAULT, L., CUNEY, M., AZENCOTT, C., DUTHOU, J.-L. & JORON, J. L. (1995): Geochemical evidence for a multistage magmatic genesis of Ta-Sn-Li mineralization in the granite at Beauvoir, French Massif Central. Economic Geology, 90, 548-576.


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