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Badakhshan

Sar-e-Sang lapis lazuli mines, Badakhshan

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

Why this spot

Precambrian contact-metamorphosed marble

The historic and finest lapis lazuli source on Earth

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