Carrala mine Colmenar del Arroyo, Madrid

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Fluor and lead vein
Location :
In Colmenar del Arroyo, In the West of the madrid Community. In the North of the town, past the Enebro.
As the cleanings are on a private property, you’ve to ask in the village for the landlord of the parcel (city hall or library).

In Spring...

i Toros !

Geological context :
The deposit is a fluorite vein, with galena.
Works :
Worked until an unknown date to the 70s.
I have not found information about this mine, but there seems to be a principal pit with some extensions.
Clearings follow a NE / SW axis, and have been moved recently.

Clearings

Mineralization
Crystallized pink and yellow fluorite sometimes with phantoms. Galena is found massive and in grains in the matrix.

Fluorite with phantom

Fluorite and quartz

Galena

Bibliography :
Minerales y minas de Madrid (Mundiprensa, 2002)
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