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Guanajuato
Guanajuato amethyst (Las Vigas-style scepters, El Cubo area)
Crystal locality Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and minerals
Coins and tokensPhotos 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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