Pradena del Rincon, Madrid

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Pegmatites
Location :
Localized in Pradena del Rincon, in the East part of the Sierra de Madrid. You can find these pegmatites along the road M-137, past the bridge on the Cochinillas river, and along the road M-127 (km 32). All at the South-West of the village.
Geological context :
The pegmatites intrude the metamorphic series (micashists, gneisses, leucogneisses).

Pegmatite vein

Works :
Never exploited. The best emergences are along the road, cut by it.
Mineralization :
1 to 10 centimeters crystals. Quartz, feldspar, muscovite, tourmaline (schorl variety), garnet. Terminated tourmaline crystals are quite frequent (1 to 5 centimeters long crystals are frequent) as well as 1 cm garnets.

Tourmaline section

Terminated tourmaline crystal

Terminated tourmaline crystal on matrix

Tourmaline cover

Garnet in pegmatitic matrix

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