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Sphalerite from
La Viesca Mine, Huergo, La Collada mining area, Siero, Asturias, Spain


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz10 photos of Sphalerite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Fluorite7 photos of Sphalerite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Pyrite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view La Viesca Mine, Huergo, La Collada mining area, Siero, Asturias, Spain
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:689663
Long-form Identifier:1:3:689663:8
GUID (UUID V4):876e6c48-f4ed-40ec-94ba-339823a65566
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
20.9km (13.0 miles) Moscona Mine, El Pontón de Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Asturias, Spain
31.5km (19.6 miles) Emilio Mine, Loroñe, Obdulia vein, Colunga, Asturias, Spain
33.5km (20.8 miles) Jaimina Mine, Carrales, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Asturias, Spain
58.8km (36.6 miles) El Valle-Boinás Mine, Belmonte de Miranda, Asturias, Spain
65.3km (40.6 miles) La Boriza Mine, Poo de Cabrales, Cabrales, Asturias, Spain
68.6km (42.6 miles) Grande Mine, Escaro, Riaño, León, Castile and Leon, Spain
72.4km (45.0 miles) Áliva Mine, Camaleño, Cantabria, Spain
72.9km (45.3 miles) Ya Salió Mine, Fuente Dé, Camaleño, Cantabria, Spain
83.4km (51.8 miles) La Colemena mine, Canton del Pandiu, Suarias, Peñamellera Baja, Asturias, Spain
94.3km (58.6 miles) Casilda Mine, Tremor de arriba, Iguena, El Bierzo, León, Castile and Leon, Spain
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ʥˑˎˎˇ˅˖ˑ˔ˑˈ˖ˊˇʧ˚˓˗ˋ˕ˋ˖ˇ Spain has historically been a country with little tradition...Naturals de Barcelona Parc de la Ciutadella, s/n 08003 Barcelona, Spain ccurto@bcn.cat collections, such...cm high, from Pedrera AVE, Riudarenes, Girona, Spain; mined 2006. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 4 (top right)...at the Natural History Museum of Barcelona, in Spain, since 1973. =VS\TL5V]LTILY+LJLTILY...wide, from the Azkarate quarry, Eugui, Navarra, Spain; mined 2002. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 7 (below)
Book (volume)
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left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...(“the MAD Group”), formed in 1979, and the Houston Area Mineralogical Society (“the HAMS Group”), formed
Journal (issue)
. . . . . . . . . 19 by J. A. Scovil The Machow mine, Tamobrzeg, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ...Pelt Fluorite and associated minerals from Asturias, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...geologic setting and mineralogy of the mine site. The Harding mine catalog will provide researchers and
Report (issue)
United Kingdom BY IAN JONES 38 Fluorite from Spain: Every Color Under the Sun BY GUIOMAR & MIGUEL CALVO...Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...108 Morocco's El Hammam: Six Decades of Fluorspar Mining BY PIERRE CLAVEL & GUNTHER NEUMEIER 112 Faceting...MICHAEL GRAY 54 Elmwood-Gordonsville-Cumberland Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56...been exploited since at least the Middle Ages, when area miners, like their counterparts in the that those
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by J. A. Scovil The M achow m ine, Tarnobrzeg, P o la n d ........................................... 29...Pelt Fluorite and associated minerals from Asturias, Spain .............................................after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...geologic setting and mineralogy of the mine site. The Harding mine catalog will provide researchers and
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(a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...government livestock inspector. He returned to the area 30 years later, found a crystal-bearing horizon...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson
Journal (issue)
Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham...(2000) Famous mineral localities: Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England 20:7-37 Bevins, R... D. (1999) Famous mineral localities: Ting Tang mine, Gwennap, Cornwall 19:18-23 CLARK, A.M. (1998) Earth's...P. (1995) Crystallized Enargite from the Gregory mine, Ashover, Derbyshire 15:28-29 DAY, B. (1998) Collecting...from Boulby mine, Cleveland 14:4-8 __& McCALLUM, D. (1993) Millerite from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead
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interest were: Stolzite (PbWO4) from Brandy Gill mine and Wulfenite (PbMoO4) from Poddy Gill. Generally...with a crude hexagonal outline - from the Carrock mine The very rare tsumebite from Roughton Gill. Pale-green...crystals of brochantite. Duftite from Brandy Gill Mine. Dull grey-green coloured crystals with acute terminations...Postlewaite’s Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, Shaws’s Mining in the Lake District and...pyromorphites from the Driggith and Roughton Gill mine tips, linarite from Red Gill and blocky yellow pyromorphite
Catalog/List
of Crystallized Gold from the famed Eagle’s Nest Mine in California A superb Crystallized “Leaf” Gold...gemstone Amethyst to come from the famed Four Peaks Mine in Arizona A sharp and complicated Crystallized...Crystallized Silver with Copper from the famed Wolverine Mine in Michigan A “classic” Rhodochrosite with associated...associated Pyrite and Quartz from the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado An unusually massive and extremely colorful...colorful, Smithsonite from the iconic Kelly Mine in New Mexico A ‘gem’ quality specimen Tanzanite crystal in
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No 4. Bournonite, Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath Specimen: 55 x 70 x 55mm Watercolour commissioned for...magnesite plates, a 24 x 18mm specimen from Boulby Mine, Cleveland (seearticle in this issue). David I....and photo. SOUTH CROFTY MINE ------------- 4 BORATE NODULES from BOULBY MINE DI Green· MD Freier 8 ...interest to amateur mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...issue by South Crofcy Pie, Europes last primary tin mine, launched on 30th July 1994, successfully reached
Journal (issue)
pounds. Painting Century Plant in the Big Bend area (1939) by Jerry Bywaters. Courtesy Amon Carter Museum...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines...mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than anywhere
Journal (issue)
padawans went to the Crystal Cave on the planet Ilum to mine kyber crystals to construct their own light sabers...to collect agate in the Alpine/Marfa/ Fort Davis area. A brief geological survey of the Davis Mountains...this location! Fortification agate The Alpine area is beautiful and rugged but very dry; they are currently...localities in Spain, a PowerPoint that focused on the many fluorite localities in Asturias Province and...and other areas of Spain. They made plans to have another Zoom meeting on May 19, 2021. The talk will be
Journal (issue)
Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...prospectors. All of this activity gave a jump-start to mining interests and prospecting in the lands of the Pacific...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...company of 15 women to exploit it. The Alaska Garnet Mining and Manufacturing Company was the first all-woman...had first been located in 1881, but little actual mining had been done; it had become a favorite spot where
Journal (issue)
Tampa, FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Thomas P....ecord Articles Rare sulfosalts from the Van Silver mine, British C olum bia...............................Balacko Famous mineral localities: The Brownley Hill mine, Alston Moor, Cumbria, England....................COVER: ATACAMITE in GYPSUM, 6.8 cm, from the Lily mine, lea, Peru. Irv Brown collection; Jeff Scovil photo...British Columbia the Silver Tunnel o f the Van Silver mine has produced hundreds o f rare and beautiful crystal
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Cassedanne & J. N. Alves Minerals of the Black Pine mine, Granite County, Montana .........................Governor Howard Dean and attended by mining industry representatives, mine owners, representatives from all...being engaged in sweettalking the owner of the M ack mine into allowing her and her young proteges to collect...ichigan 49930 (906) 482-9560 Michigan native copper; mine owner; wholesale, retail Jo e & D iane K ielbaso...Appt. Only t o fy v E I\S lD E J V f'S S j Z P a la I n t 'l & the C o l l ect o r Kent Bricker &
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...18:65-74 Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain area [Georgia and Alabama] (by J.B. Gordon, Jr. & C....ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G
Catalog/List
They are the Directors of this new and exciting area, having served as consultants in this arena for...Boyce Thompson: founder of Newmont Mining and owner of the Tsumeb mine. Upon his demise, it lent its considerable...wielding prospector Bud Guthrie (Lot 49046). The La Viesca Fluorite (Lot 49055), with its enormous 4-inch...WILLEMITE WITH CALCITE SPECIMENS Sterling Hill Mine and Franklin area, Sussex Co., New Jersey Willemite and Calcite...(14 x 7.6 x 4.4 cm), from the famed Sterling Hill Mine, it is a large exposed Willemite face, with a thinner
Journal (issue)
way oftraveler as har3h and pristine mountainous area Refer to doctor and writer Sergei Yakovlevich Elpatievskiy...Sludskiy also admired Karadag (1912), mountain in the area, Svyataya Mountain (Holy Mountain), later ·'Anciellt...Russian Federation of March 11, 2019, the total area oft he rcsc"'C Magnitny and Kok-Kaya ridges. The...rnlcanic activity" (Pallas, 1795). In 1823-1825. mining surYeyorG. Kazin searched for coal, iron, oil,...event of the first half of the I9th century was the mining expedition, which was carried out in 1837 in the
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Articles Update on the mineralogy of the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada .........................Interest and collecting activity at the Majuba Hill mine have increased since the publication o f the initial...(Jensen, 1985). Information on new discoveries at the mine, as well as on certain aspects that were left vague...presented here. As o f October, 1991, access to the mine is tenuously unrestricted. INTRODUCTION Several...covered in this update discussion: ( 1) the status of mine access, (2) minerals previously unreported from
Book
However, from deep inside an asteroid, similar to the area deep inside Earth if they are too big for the atmosphere...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...») Gypsum (selenite variety), Portman, Murcia, Spain ° 14 Nellexorem Dendritic manganese oxide on limestone...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm
Book
is not common in the metasedimentary rocks of the area which host these species, but "reasonably good"...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage... r ILMENITE QUEBEC Girardville, Lac Saint-Jean area. Just northwest of the town of Girardville, itself...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the
Book (edition)
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