Is it legal to collect at Cristalina, GO: rock crystal garimpo town?

Gray area. Buying at the Mercado do Cristal and gem shops is legal and the point of a visit; digging old garimpo ground needs an ANM permit (PLG) or landowner arrangement, so treat the diggings as look-and-buy

What can you find at Cristalina, GO: rock crystal garimpo town?

buy: quartz points and clusters, crystal balls, amethyst, tourmaline; eyes-only on the old garimpo scars

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Brazil, Goiás

Cristalina, GO

Rock crystal garimpo town

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and minerals

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: quartz crystal boomtown since 1879, when rock crystal was first shipped to Paris; still a major crystal and gem trading center

Wikipedia documents the 1879 crystal discovery and the town's role as a leading crystal commerce center; the municipal site lists the Mercado do Cristal and Serra dos Topazios