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Roraima

Serra do Tepequém diamond gravels

Gem locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: diamond traces.

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

Why this spot

Table mountain whose gravels drew diamond garimpos from the 1930s to the 1990s

Documented diamond field in Roraima history, now a tourism area.

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