Join me as I showcase my best rockhounding finds, featuring stunning agates, glittering geodes, vibrant amethyst crystals, glowing yooperlites, and beautiful calcite specimens. This collection ...

Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz which has been used as a gemstone for many centuries and is a key economic resource in northern Uruguay. Geodes are hollow rock formations often with quartz ...

There's something distinctly mysterious and cool about geodes... rocks hidden in plain sight that contain a astonishing array of crystals within, just waiting to be discovered. There are a lot of ...

In a recent article in Miner Deposita, researchers presented a comprehensive study of the amethyst and agate geodes in the Los Catalanes Gemmological District of Northern Uruguay. This region is ...

Göttingen University researcher Fiorella Arduin Rode working in open pit mine of the study area, Los Catalanes mining district, northern Uruguay. Along with Ametista do Sul in southern Brazil, these ...