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Ricoules Mine (Rousseille Mine; Brugerolle Mine), Vieille-Brioude, Brioude, Brioude - Massiac area, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France

(Mine de Ricoules (Mine de Rousseille; Mine de Brugerolle), Vielle-Brioude, Brioude, District ded Brioude - Massiac, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France)

Ancient antimony mine, working quartz veins carrying sulphidic Sb and Bi ores. Host rocks are gneisses (leptynitic anatexites of the leptyno-amphibolic group), often mylonitized, including pegmatite lenses, tourmalinites carrying arsenopyrite or pyrrhotite, calcite veins and listvenite lenses. Located 1.5 km SW of Vieille-Brioude near the road leading from the D 585 road to Védrines. The entrance to an old gallery is still visible 100 m west of the branch on the D 585 road. Small veins carrying the same mineralization are exposed in a quarry 100 m east of the gallery, besides the D 585 road.





Mineral List:
  		•  Anatase
  		• Ankerite
  		• Antimony
  		• Arsenopyrite
  		• Berthierite
  		• Bismuth
  		• Bismuthinite
  		• Bournonite
  		• Calcite
  		• Chalcopyrite
  		• Dolomite
  		• Galena
  		• Gersdorffite
  		• Gersdorffite
    var: Antimonian Gersdorffite
  		• Goethite
  		• Gudmundite
  		• Gypsum
  		• Illite
  		• Ilmenite
  		• Jarosite
  		• Kaolinite
  		• Linnaeite
  		• Magnetite
    var: Titaniferous Magnetite
  		• Marcasite
  		• Montmorillonite
  		• Muscovite
  		• Pyrite
  		• Pyrrhotite
  		• Quartz
  		• Schorl
  		• Sepiolite
  		• Siderite
  		• Sphalerite
  		• Stibnite
  		• Talc
  		• Tetrahedrite
  		• Ullmannite
  		• Zircon


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