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Le Brugeaud Mine, Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France

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Abandoned uranium mine on quartz-fluorite-barite veins with included pitchblende (hydrothermally formed uranium deposit of the La Crouzille type). Located near Le Brugeaud, around 1.5 km N of Bessines-sur-Gartempe.





Mineral List:
  		•  Baryte
    BaSO
     
    4
    Reference: []
  		•  Coffinite
    (U,Th)[(OH)
     
    4x
    		|(SiO
     
    4
    		)
     
    1-x
    		]
    Reference: [Le Règne Minéral, Hors Série IV, 1998]
  		•  Fluorite
    CaF
     
    2
    Reference: []
  		•  'Gummite'
    Reference: [Le Règne Minéral, Hors Série IV, 1998]
  		•  Kasolite
    Pb(UO
     
    2
    		)[SiO
     
    4
    		] · H
     
    2
    		O
    Reference: [Le Règne Minéral, Hors Série IV, 1998]
  		•  Parsonsite
    Pb
     
    2
    		(UO
     
    2
    		)[PO
     
    4
    		]
     
    2
    		 · 2H
     
    2
    		O
    Reference: [Le Règne Minéral, Hors Série IV, 1998]
  		•  Quartz
    SiO
     
    2
    Reference: []
  		•  Sharpite
    Ca(UO
     
    2
    		)
     
    6
    		[(OH)
     
    4
    		|(CO
     
    3
    		)
     
    5
    		] · 6H
     
    2
    		O
    Reference: [Le Règne Minéral, Hors Série IV, 1998]
  		•  Uraninite
    var: Pitchblende
    UO
     
    2
    Reference: [Le Règne Minéral, Hors Série IV, 1998]


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