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Rancho El Apache agate beds

Agate beach or gravel Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Agates and jasperAgates and jasper

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain).

Why this spot

Nodular agate in Tertiary andesites of the El Sueco ranch country, source of the famous Apache agate

Named ranch source well known in agate collector literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

desert exposure

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