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Metropolitan Region, Santiago Metropolitan

Alhué gold district

Gold ground Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: sphalerite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Coastal range gold veins worked since the 1500s, now a modern underground mine

Documented historic and modern gold district.

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