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Jalisco
San Marcos opal area
Opal field Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
OpalAlso reported: hyalite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dpulitzer (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Fire opal in rhyolite on the western edge of the Magdalena opal belt, dug in small pits since the 1950s
Named village source within the well documented Jalisco opal fields.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
heat, pit walls
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.