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China Inland, Inner Mongolia

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Urat Rear Banner Agate Lake (Manao Hu) area

Agate beach or gravel Documented siteRestricted
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Agates and jasperAgates and jasper

Also reported: gobi viewing stones, market-bought Manao Hu material.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: dry gobi lakebed famous for colored agate; source of celebrated Chinese viewing stones

Field and its stripping are well documented; ban around 2016 reported in Chinese media, exact enforcement details thinner

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Extremely remote border gobiNo services, patrolled zone, vehicles bog in soft lakebed

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