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San Pedro Totolapan agate fields
Agate beach or gravel Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Agates and jasperPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain).
Why this spot
Moss agate and jasper weathering from volcanics along the Tehuantepec highway corridor, dug by local cutters for decades
Source of the green moss agate long sold in Oaxacan lapidary trade.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
heat, thorn scrub
Keep exploring nearby
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