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A total of 127 different minerals have been identified in the county.
Chaffee County is known to have an abundance of minerals and a surprisingly great number of them are exposed. Those treasures include: aquamarine, garnets, pyrite, gold, quartz crystals, jasper, topaz, malachite, fluorite, galena and epidote.
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