Chile is one of only a handful of places on Earth with commercial lapis, and it is the national stone: the Flor de los Andes deposit sits above 3,500 metres in the Coquimbo Andes, worked in a short summer season. Chilean lapis is typically paler and more mottled with white calcite than Afghan stone, and is carved into everything sold in Santiago’s Bellavista district. PRIVATE high-altitude workings.
Lapis lazuli
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