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Sile-Agva shingle beaches
Agate beach or gravel Documented siteLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Agates and jasper
Crystals and mineralsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Black Sea storm beaches concentrating hard pebbles from Paleozoic and volcanic hinterland
Istanbul collectors comb these shingle coves for banded and colored pebbles.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
rip currents
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.