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Mexico, Chihuahua
Agua Nueva, Coyame del Sotol
Crazy lace agate hills
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
Rockhounding locality: source area of crazy lace agate, the wildly contorted lace-banded agate of the Sierra Santa Lucia country in northeastern Chihuahua
Agua Nueva is the named source locality for crazy lace and Agua Nueva agate in standard mineral references; exact pits are on ranch and ejido land
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Very remote desert with no servicesPoor unsigned tracks, extreme heat, security situation on rural Chihuahua roads varies
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