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Jujuy

Rinconada gold placers

Gold ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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

Why this spot

Puna placer and vein gold worked from Inca times around a 4000 meter village

Documented historic gold district of the Argentine puna.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

altitude, cold

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