Mine de Truscas
Gallery quickly blocked by a rockfall, accessible via a narrow chimney leading to a collapse dome in the Cambrian granite of the Mendic.
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Mine de Truscas
Gallery quickly blocked by a rockfall, accessible via a narrow chimney leading to a collapse dome in the Cambrian granite of the Mendic.
Lunas-les-Châteaux
Length: 27 m · Depth: 7 m
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Gallery quickly blocked by a rockfall, accessible via a narrow chimney leading to a collapse dome in the Cambrian granite of the Mendic.
Description
Morphology
Gallery quickly closed by a rockfall. A narrow chimney allows access to a dome with rockfall debris. This dome must have been caused by the collapse of a gallery below.
Large brecciated structures N 30°, highly altered, in the Cambrian granite of the Mendic. No visible mineralization.
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Contains information from Grottocenter (Wikicaves), grottocenter.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/74822 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected] · data as of 2026 · Source: Grottocenter (Association Wikicaves), worldwide collaborative cave database (grottocenter.org), modified. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Grottocenter (Wikicaves) · Text by BTH (Description sommaire), BTH (Géologie) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/74822 · data as of 2026