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16th Nov 2007 13:26 UTCtobias prediger

hello,ÃŒÂ´m sorry, I canÂ´t speak french at all, so IÂ´ll try to ask in English:

I spent my holidays in southern France this year.At Gorges d`Heric in Haut-Languedoc I couldn`t fail the aplitic or pegmatit veigns with lots of mica, schorlite,feldspatic material and very very small but very nice garnets (thought amaldine) and bluish fragments of apatite (primarely I supposed them to be beryl, but they didn`t survive a HCl bath) . Nothing really spectacular , no miaroles could be found- i was only searching on the surface while my family took a bath at the really nice river.

So my question is: does anybody know about good findings there? there is some geological literature available at the web e.g. http://pedagogie.ac-montpellier.fr/svt/litho/heric/activites.htm

or http://geologie.over-blog.fr/article-12985478.html

but I hope to get more specific information on findings and rockhounding there.

thank you!

greetings from southern bavaria

tobias prediger

18th Nov 2007 13:41 UTCJean-Marc Johannet Manager

Bonjour Tobias,

If you are interested in Languedoc geology, I recommend you the book of Jean-Claude Bousquet, "GÃ©ologie du Languedoc-Roussillon", BRGM Ed.

It is available on the net, just make a search with book title and author.

Interesting citations about HÃ©ric in this book:

Page 38:

Some granites are difficult to find like the Espinouse one, above the Gorges d'HÃ©ric.

Page 44:

.. It is the same for augen gneiss that we come across in the Gorges d'HÃ©ric (Massif du Caroux), considered in the past as equivalent to Mendic granite but recently dated at - 440 millions years, which should situated it at the beginning of paleozoic era.

Not far from Gorges d'HÃ©ric, few kilometers north of Mons village, BRGM data bank point out an old mining locality, I've added to mindat.

http://www.mindat.org/loc-158387.html

I've never been there but if you will go again in this aera, it could be interesting to have a look.

Cordialement.

Jean-Marc.

9th Feb 2008 00:02 UTCdept66

The region is famous for its beautiful deep red garnets which are locally mined still today and have been since prehistoric times.

http://www.mindat.org/gallery.php?loc=48159

tobias prediger Ecrivait:

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> hello,ÃŒÂ´m sorry, I canÂ´t speak french at all,

> so IÂ´ll try to ask in English:

>

> I spent my holidays in southern France this

> year.At Gorges d`Heric in Haut-Languedoc I

> couldn`t fail the aplitic or pegmatit veigns with

> lots of mica, schorlite,feldspatic material and

> very very small but very nice garnets (thought

> amaldine) and bluish fragments of apatite

> (primarely I supposed them to be beryl, but they

> didn`t survive a HCl bath) . Nothing really

> spectacular , no miaroles could be found- i was

> only searching on the surface while my family took

> a bath at the really nice river.

> So my question is: does anybody know about good

> findings there? there is some geological

> literature available at the web e.g.

> http://pedagogie.ac-montpellier.fr/svt/litho/heric

> /activites.htm

> or

> http://geologie.over-blog.fr/article-12985478.html

>

> but I hope to get more specific information on

> findings and rockhounding there.

> thank you!

> greetings from southern bavaria

> tobias prediger

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