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.
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