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Mexico, Veracruz
Piedra Parada, Veracruz
Las Vigas amethyst claims
Crystal locality Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: pale lilac prisms, epidote.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: the world's premier source of elegant prismatic amethyst crystals, dug by campesino miners in andesite veins above the Piedra Parada gorge near Las Vigas
Piedra Parada and Las Vigas de Ramirez are cited by name in mineral references as the source of Mexico's famous prismatic amethyst
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Steep barranca trailsHigh altitude cloud forest weather, hand-dug tunnels that should not be entered
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