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Kinta Valley tin field
Mineral locality Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: cassiterite, ilmenite, tektites.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
The world's richest historic alluvial tin field, dredged around Ipoh for a century and left as lake-pocked ground
Extensively documented in Malayan mining literature, now a national geopark.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
deep ex-mining ponds
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.