The Puech de Leguo quarry, Aveyron

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This small quarry in north-western Aveyron has yielded a series of well-crystallised phosphates. Recent finds of saléeite and greifensteinite complete the list of rare minerals identified at this site. These discoveries are placed in the geological context of the La Capelle-Bleys leucogranite, which has long been prospected for various metals and then for uranium in the 1960s.

Cédrick Gineste

Cédrick Gineste has 35 years of experience in field mineralogy. An exploration geologist since 1997, his field missions have taken him to more than twenty countries across five continents. He has a naturalistic approach to mineralogy and collects deposits and their parageneses rather than minerals.

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in the print journal Mineralogique.

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