Amatitlan, Guerrero: amethyst vein diggings

Where: Mexico · North America · approx. 17.87, -99.76 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: deep purple amethyst with phantoms from hand-worked veins in the hills above Amatitlan, Eduardo Neri municipality, north of the Rio Balsas country

What turns up: deep purple amethyst points, phantom amethyst, quartz clusters

Access: Permission required.

Workings are community and family claims on communal land; buy from miners in Amatitlan or via dealers, and do not dig without an explicit local invitation

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.