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Place details
- Locality
- Chessy
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Population
- 1,510
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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Department
- Rhône
- Arrondissement
- Villefranche-sur-Saône
- Canton
- Val d'Oingt
- Intercommunality
- Beaujolais Pierres Dorées
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Thierry Padilla-Quintana
- Area
- 4.55 km (1.76 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 2,055
- Density
- 452/km (1,170/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 69056 /69380
- Elevation
- 211–342 m (692–1,122 ft) , (avg. 205 m or 673 ft)
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Encyclopedic overview
Chessy ( French: [ʃɛsi] ), also known as Chessy-les-Mines ([ʃɛsi le min]), is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France.
Chessy-les-Mines is the type locality of the mineral azurite, also known as "chessylite." The species was redescribed and renamed in 1824 by François-Sulpice Beudant (1787–1850), French mineralogist and geologist.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chessy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.