Cantera/mina Cerro del Cinto, Rodalquilar, Nijar, Almerķa

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(text and pictures by FdW)

We visited this locality in the end of 2006. It was hot, very hot. We walked around through the quarries ('tajos 2 and 3') and went underground were we could. But we did not find any interesting minerals. No, no gold also ;-)

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