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Goiás

Cavalcante gold heritage area

Gold ground Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

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

Why this spot

1740s gold town on the northern Veadeiros plateau within Kalunga quilombo territory

Documented colonial gold settlement in Goiás history.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

remote canyons

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