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Glass Buttes Obsidian

Mineral locality Documented siteLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: Rainbow, fire, mahogany, snowflake and double-flow obsidian.

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

Why this spot

Pleistocene

Premier obsidian collecting area in central Oregon.

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