Things to find in Chile

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• Argentine rhodochrosite, the Inca Rose Gem & mineral ground
  Argentina’s national gemstone is rosa del Inca, banded pink rhodochrosite formed as stalactites in old Inca-era silver workings at Capillitas in Catamarca, and cut across to show concentric rose-pink rings found nowhere else in...
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• Chilean lapis lazuli Gem & mineral ground
  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...
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• Cueva del Milodón, Patagonia Cave
  A 200-metre cave in Chilean Patagonia that a German explorer, Hermann Eberhard, walked into in 1895 and found a large piece of skin that looked almost fresh. It belonged to a Mylodon, a ground sloth the size of a small bear that...
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• The Bunyip’s neighbour: the Moai and Rapa Nui Legend
  Nearly nine hundred stone giants stand on a speck of volcanic rock 3,500 kilometres from anywhere, carved by the Rapa Nui between roughly 1250 and 1500 and moved kilometres from the Rano Raraku quarry, where dozens remain...
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