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Central & East Europe, Lower Silesia
Ploczki Gorne
Lwowek agate fields
Agate beach or gravel Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Agates and jasper
Geodes
Crystals and mineralsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain), W.carter (CC BY-SA 4.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: Poland's most famous agate diggings, Permian melaphyre fields where ploughed slopes yield banded agate geodes, celebrated by the Lwowek Agate Summer festival since 1997
Lwowek Slaski municipality promotes the Agate Summer 'festival of treasure seekers' with its own site, digging fields at Ploczki Gorne are the festival's traditional excursion ground
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
deep collector pits hidden in grassHeavy clay after rain
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