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Altai Krai

Kolyvan jasper quarries

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Agates and jasperAgates and jasper
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: porphyry.

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

Why this spot

Altai ornamental-stone quarries feeding the Kolyvan lapidary works since 1802, source of tsarist vases

Documented historic stone-cutting district of the Russian decorative arts.

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