Latitude: 46°9'27"N
Longitude: 2°57'52"E
Bois du Roi, Les Chaillats (Chaillat), Servant, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France
Ancient tungsten mine (W-Sn-Cu mineralisation: wolframite, cassiterite, stannite, chalcopyrite). The galleries were driven northwards in quartz porphyry and silicified micaschists, to develop the orebodies near Les Bois Menus and Les Pierres Cassées. The mineralisation is related to the granite intrusions further north at Échassières (
http://www.mindat.org/loc-42604.html).
Located 500 m N of Les Chaillats (in Servant community) and about 3 km south of the La Bosse crossing.
Formerly mined by the Compagnie Minière des Montmins (see also Montmins mine).
BRGM BSS Reference: 06455X4003/GT
References
- Vincienne, H. & Pelissonnier, H. (1954): Microscopic study of the mineralization of the Chaillats (Puy-de-Dôme) vein at the border of the Montmins granite, and of several sulfureted irregularities in the tungsten-bearing quartz of Mont Boucher (Creuse). Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie 77, 1337-1362. (in French)
- J.-J. Périchaud: Les Minéraux d'Auvergne, Vol. 1, Clermont-Ferrand (1985)
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