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Balmorhea TX
Lake Balmorhea blue agate shore
Agate beach or gravel Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Agates and jasperPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: the sky-blue Balmorhea agate of west Texas, hunted along the reservoir shore below its ranchland source hills
Documented on a mapped state guide for the north and east shores; access regime not independently confirmed, fee digs on nearby ranches come and go
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
soft shoreline mudHeat, sudden west Texas storms
Keep exploring nearby
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