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Cumaru garimpo district

Gold ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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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

1980s garimpo gold field in the Gradaús hills south of the Carajás province

Documented in accounts of the Pará gold rushes.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

malaria, remoteness

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