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Chile, Antofagasta

Caracoles District, Chile

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: chlorargyrite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: historic silver district

Documented historic silver district of the Atacama with chlorargyrite and silver minerals.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Open shafts, desert heat

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