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Samtskhe-Javakheti
Akhaltsikhe agate fields
Agate beach or gravel Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Agates and jasper
Crystals and minerals
GeodesPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), W.carter (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
Agate-bearing Tertiary volcanics near Akhaltsikhe, once mined for Soviet lapidary supply
The Akhaltsikhe agate deposit is named in Caucasian gemstone literature.
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