Ouro Preto, MG: gold-rush streets and streams

BOTTLE DIGGING RESTRICTED DOCUMENTED

Where: Brazil · South America · approx. -20.39, -43.5 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Vila Rica, epicenter of the Brazilian gold rush: 800 tons of gold officially shipped to Portugal in the 18th century, UNESCO listed 1980

What turns up: eyes-only: colonial mining streets, Chico Rei mine tour, gold museum at the old mint; buy imperial topaz from town jewelers

Access: Restricted.

National Monument (1933) and UNESCO site under IPHAN: no digging, panning or detecting anywhere in the tombamento zone or its gold-bearing creeks; see the mine tours and buy topaz in town instead

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