Things to find in Uruguay

What the map holds here

• Artigas amethyst Gem & mineral ground
  Northern Uruguay produces some of the world’s finest deep-purple amethyst, grown in gas cavities in ancient basalt, and the geodes from Artigas, some big enough to stand inside, are the standard by which amethyst is judged along...
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• Uruguayan agate & the Salto geodes Gem & mineral ground
  The same ancient basalt flows that give Brazil its geodes run under northern Uruguay, and the country is one of the world’s great sources of banded agate and hollow amethyst geodes, cut and polished around Salto and Artigas....
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Every one of these is sourced

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