Things to find in Brazil

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• Brazilian Minas Gerais gems Gem & mineral ground
  The greatest gem province on Earth. Minas Gerais (“general mines”) in Brazil produces more gem species in quantity than anywhere: the neon Paraiba tourmaline, giant aquamarine and morganite crystals, imperial topaz, emerald,...
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• El Dorado’s cousin: the Lost City of Z Legend
  In 1925 the British explorer Percy Fawcett walked into the Mato Grosso of Brazil hunting a lost stone city he called “Z” and was never seen again, along with his son and a friend, one of the great disappearances of the age. For...
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• Ouro Preto, imperial topaz Gem & mineral ground
  The old gold-rush city of Ouro Preto (“black gold”) in Minas Gerais, Brazil, sits in the only place on Earth that produces imperial topaz, the sherry-to-pink stone found nowhere else, and Minas Gerais is one of the greatest gem...
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