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Lake Francis Case shoreline agates

Agate beach or gravel Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Agates and jasperAgates and jasper
Petrified woodPetrified wood

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain), Jon Sullivan (Public domain).

Why this spot

Missouri River reservoir beaches concentrating prairie agate and petrified wood

Shoreline rockhounding on the Missouri reservoirs is a known South Dakota pastime.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

wind, slumping banks

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