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El Oro
Portovelo-Zaruma gold district
Gold ground Documented siteProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Crystals and mineralsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Epithermal veins
Zaruma-Portovelo is Ecuador's classic gold district
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