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Guanajuato amethyst (Las Vigas-style scepters, El Cubo area)

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What you could find

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Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

Tertiary epithermal veins

Amethyst as a by-product of the Guanajuato silver veins.

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