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Cape Blomidon, Bay of Fundy

Agate beach or gravel Documented siteGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Agates and jasperAgates and jasper
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: and zeolites (stilbite, heulandite) tumbling out of the North Mountain basalt onto the red tidal beach at low tide.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Triassic to Jurassic basalt

Collect only loose float on the beach at low tide; the tides here are the highest in the world and dangerous.

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