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Extract from the Cristalina Travel Guides:
A longish but interesting trip can be made to the settlement of
CRISTALINA
, around 100km south of Braslia in the Gois plateau highlands. Indeed, the journey itself is one of the main reasons to come, through the distinctive, savanna scenery of the
planalto
along the BR-040 towards Belo Horizonte. Prospectors came here looking for gold in the early eighteenth century when they came across a large quantity of rock crystal. This crystal mountain did not have much value until over a century later when the European market opened up. Today Cristalina is an attractive, rustic town, based around the mining, cutting, polishin...
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