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Pará, Maranhão

Gurupi gold belt

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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

Greenstone gold belt straddling the Pará and Maranhão border, worked by garimpeiros for a century

Documented gold belt in Brazilian geological surveys.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

malaria, land conflicts

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