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Moonstone Beach, Cambria CA
Moonstone agate
Gem locality, tidal Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Agates and jasper
Sea glassPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain), Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: Cambria's namesake beach where surf concentrates milky moonstone chalcedony, agate and jasper along the driftline
Local tourism and beachcombing accounts document moonstone finds; material is genuine surf-tumbled chalcedony, not true feldspar moonstone
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Sleeper waves and cold surfSlippery rocks at the tideline
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