
Petersville Recreational Gold Area
Peters Creek drainage north of Denali offers permitted recreational gold panning and sluicing in designated stream reaches.
View detailsQuartz is the most collected crystal in American rockhounding. Start with fee digs for keep-what-you-find gravel, then graduate to documented public exposures and pegmatite districts.
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Clear and smoky quartz, amethyst, Herkimer “diamonds,” and milky quartz veins. Arkansas Mount Ida country and New York Herkimer digs are beginner-friendly fee options.
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Peters Creek drainage north of Denali offers permitted recreational gold panning and sluicing in designated stream reaches.
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Quartz Creek Lode is a mineral prospect in Alaska, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Galena, Gold, Malachite.
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Private gold camp in the Alabama Piedmont offering creek panning and dredging in controlled sections of area streams.
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Quartz veins and pegmatite float occur on slopes of Cheaha Mountain, Alabama's highest point, within Cheaha State Park boundaries.
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Star Blue Quartz is a documented rockhounding destination in AL. Collectors visit for quartz crystals, calcite and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Abandoned Mines (Yellville area) is a documented mineral occurrence near AR. Reported specimens include Smithsonite, Calcite, Quartz, Dolomite, Greenockite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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A working crystal mine in the Ouachita uplift where visitors dig clay pockets for double-terminated quartz crystals.
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Coleman’s Crystal Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near AR. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Diamonds is a documented rockhounding destination in AR. Collectors visit for diamond, quartz, garnet and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Mount Ida bills itself as the Quartz Crystal Capital of the World, with multiple commercial dig sites and tailings piles open to collectors.
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Quartz crystals is a documented rockhounding destination in AR. Collectors visit for quartz crystals, calcite and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Ron Coleman Mining is a documented mineral occurrence near AR. Reported specimens include Quartz Crystals, Amethyst, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Sweet Surrender Crystal Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near AR. Reported specimens include Quartz Crystals, Calcite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Unnamed Location (Smoky Quartz & Calcite) is a documented mineral occurrence near AR. Reported specimens include Smoky Quartz, Calcite, Chert, Chlorite, Feldspar. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Unnamed Location Near Cemetery is a documented mineral occurrence near AR. Reported specimens include Smoky Quartz, Brookite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Commercial crystal mines in the Ouachita Mountains offering tailings and virgin ground digs for clear quartz points and clusters.
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Wegner Quartz Crystal Mines is a documented mineral occurrence near AR. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Area around Diamond Point Lookout is a documented mineral occurrence near AZ. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Area around hotel is a documented mineral occurrence near AZ. Reported specimens include Jasper, Agate, Quartz Crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Date Creek area is a documented mineral occurrence near AZ. Reported specimens include Agate, Garnet, Jasper, Limonite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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The rugged Four Peaks range east of Phoenix hosts Arizona's famed deep-purple amethyst veins in remote cliff faces above the Salt River.
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Kingman Feldspar Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near AZ. Reported specimens include Allanite, Microcline, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Landsman Prospect is a known mineral occurrence in Graham, Arizona, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Barite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Fluorite, Galena.
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Newsboy Mine is a historic mining site in Maricopa, Arizona, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Copper, Galena, Gold, Pyrolusite, Quartz crystals, Silver.
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Outpost Extension Prospect is a known mineral occurrence in Yavapai, Arizona, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Bismuth, Chrysocolla, Copper, Feldspar, Galena.
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Right On Group is a known mineral occurrence in Pima, Arizona, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Galena, Gold, Malachite.
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Road along Agua Fria River is a documented mineral occurrence near AZ. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Rough Mountain Quartz Vein is a known mineral occurrence in Cochise, Arizona, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Gold, Malachite, Quartz crystals.
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Dry washes and hillside gravels near Acton in the western Mojave have long attracted weekend prospectors searching placer gold after winter rains.
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Alabama Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Argentite, Gold quartz, Galena. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Benitoite Mining Company / Benitoite area is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Varied local minerals and crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Clark Valley is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Apatite Crystals, Andalusite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Gibson Small Quartz is a mineral prospect in San Bernardino, California, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Gold, Malachite, Silver.
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Golden Jubilee Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Limonite, Quartz, Pyrite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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The Pala district near the historic Himalaya Mine is one of California's classic gem pegmatite regions, famous for pink and green tourmaline crystals in pocket clay.
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Himalaya Tourmaline Mine (Mesa Grande) is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Tourmaline, Lepidolite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Howlands Landing (Catalina Island) is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Albite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Little Acorn Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Epidote, Quartz crystals, Smoky Quartz, Scheelite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mine Dumps (San Diego Co.) is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Aquamarine, Beryl, Lepidolite, Quartz crystals, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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A working gem mine in the Pala pegmatite district offering fee digs where visitors screen pocket clay for tourmaline and colored spodumene crystals.
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Original Quartz Hill is a historic mining site in Shasta, California, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Copper, Gold, Silver.
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Pala Chief / Oceanview Mine (Pala district) is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Varied local minerals and crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pine Tree Canyon is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Barite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Quartz Point Prospect is a mineral prospect in Plumas, California, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Galena, Malachite, Silver.
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Red Quartz is a historic mining site in Modoc, California, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Gold.
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Historic Mother Lode placer operation in the Sierra foothills where visitors can pan and sluice for gold along shaded creek gravels.
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Rouse Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Amazonite, Idocrase, Rose Quartz, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Sequoi NP - fairy pool of Crystal cave is a documented rockhounding destination in CA. Collectors visit for quartz crystals, calcite and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Unnamed Location (Apatite/Aquamarine) is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Apatite, Aquamarine, Beryl, Quartz crystals, Rose Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Unnamed Location (LA County) is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ware Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near CA. Reported specimens include Beryl, Lepidolite, Quartz crystals, Schorl, Topaz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Centennial Cone is a documented mineral occurrence near CO. Reported specimens include Aquamarine, Bertrandite, Beryl, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Cook Mountain (southern side) is a documented mineral occurrence near CO. Reported specimens include Amazonite, Smoky Quartz, Topaz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pegmatite outcrops on Devils Head in Douglas County yield topaz and smoky quartz crystals in miarolitic cavities along popular hiking trails.
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Gold Brick, Quartz Creek, Box Canyon district is a historic mining site in Gunnison, Colorado, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Copper, Galena, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite.
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Historic mining town west of Boulder sits amid pegmatite veins that have produced topaz and fluorite crystals for over a century.
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Crystal Peak and the Lake George district produce vivid blue-green amazonite clusters with smoky quartz on Pikes Peak granite pegmatites.
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Mount Antero and Mount White in the Sawatch Range are legendary for aquamarine beryl crystals in granite pegmatites above 12,000 feet.
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Quartz Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near CO. Reported specimens include Albite, Beryl, Lepidolite, Mica, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Sentinel Rock and Specimen Rock is a documented mineral occurrence near CO. Reported specimens include Amazonite, Fluorite, Goethite, Hematite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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South Platte Pegmatite District is a historic mining site in Jefferson, Colorado, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Feldspar, Fluorite, Gemstones, Pyrolusite, Quartz crystals.
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Specimen Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near CO. Reported specimens include Allophane, Calcite, Agate, Quartz, Topaz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Unnamed Mine Dump (Zircon) is a documented mineral occurrence near CO. Reported specimens include Zircon crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Wigwam Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near CO. Reported specimens include Amazonite, Fluorite, Smoky Quartz, Clear Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Willow Creek (permission required) is a documented mineral occurrence near CO. Reported specimens include Amethyst crystals, Chalcedony, Sphalerite, Silver, Agate. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Aldrich Park is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bantam Lake is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Rose Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Portland pegmatite district Case Quarries yielded beryl and rare uranium minerals in the Connecticut River Valley.
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Cinque Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Collins Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Apatite, Aquamarine, Beryl, Citrine, Bismuthinite, Columbite, Feldspar, Rose Quartz, Smokey Quartz, Clear Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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East Granby Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Datolite, Aragonite, Calcite, Celestine, Epidote, Fluorite, Galena, Prehnite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Gillette Quarry in Haddam Neck is a classic Connecticut pegmatite locality famous for amazonite and large quartz crystals.
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Hubbard Park is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Meriden is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Quartz, Amethyst, Calcite, Gypsum. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Old Iron Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Quartz crystals, Siderite, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Old Mine Park preserves historic tungsten mine shafts and dumps in Trumbull for geological interpretation without collecting.
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Old Simpson Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Aquamarine, Smokey Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pelton’s Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Citrine, Rose Quartz, Smokey Quartz, Clear Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Roebling Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Aquamarine, Beryl, Biotite, Feldspar, Garnet, Smokey Quartz, Muscovite, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Slocum Prospect is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Beryl, Rose Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Stafford is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Iron Ore, Limonite, Quartz, Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Strickland Quarry near Portland produced elbaite tourmaline and beryl crystals from one of New England's richest pegmatites.
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Tolland is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Rose Quartz, Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Vernon is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Rose Quartz, Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Wilton is a documented mineral occurrence near CT. Reported specimens include Arsenopyrite, Bismuth, Galena, Pyrite, Wolframite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Cape Henlopen is a documented mineral occurrence near DE. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Deauville Beach is a documented mineral occurrence near DE. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fowler Beach is a documented mineral occurrence near DE. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Brooksville is a documented mineral occurrence near FL. Reported specimens include Calcite Crystal, Echinoid Geodes, Calcite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Crystal River is a documented mineral occurrence near FL. Reported specimens include Calcite Crystal, Quartz, Chert, Fossils. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Amethyst Crystals - Wilkes County, Georgia is a documented rockhounding destination in GA. Collectors visit for quartz crystals, calcite and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Athens is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Blue Quartz, Green Beryl. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bremen is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Chattahoochee County is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Chert, Quartz, Petrified wood, Pyrite, Selenite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Chatuge Lake is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Corundum, Garnet, Kyanite, Quartz, Rutile. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Crisson Gold Mine (panning) is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Gold, Garnet, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Culloden is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Mica, Muscovite, Biotite, Feldspar, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Dewy Rose is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Aquamarine, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Elberton is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Aquamarine, Garnet, Quartz crystals, Tourmaline, Beryl. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Girard is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Savannah River Agate, Chalcedony, Quartz, Silicified oolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Graves Mountain mine (paid location) is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Lazulite crystals, Red Rutile, Pyrophyllite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Herron Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Apatite, Beryl, Mica, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hillsboro is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Rose Quartz, Smoky Quartz, Clear Quartz, Mica, Vermiculite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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A famous Georgia pegmatite mine offering fee digs for aquamarine beryl, rose quartz, and black tourmaline crystals.
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Hunter Knob is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Graphite, Muscovite, Quartz, Sillimanite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hurricane Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Beryl, Kyanite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Jack Branch & Shoal Branch Area is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Amethyst crystals in iron-stained quartz geodes occur at this Wilkes County fee dig site in the Georgia Piedmont.
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Lake Sinclair is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lavonia is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Muscovite, Galena, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Maysville is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Rock Crystal. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Milner is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Mica books, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Monticello is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Quartz, Beryl. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Murray County is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pine Mountain Valley is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Rose Quartz, Beryl. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Quartz (Amethyst) is a documented rockhounding destination in GA. Collectors visit for quartz crystals, calcite and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Rome is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Chalcedony, Geodes, Rose Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Soquee River is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Kyanite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Stone Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Tallulah Falls is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Citrine, Quartz, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Thomaston is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Kyanite, Mica, Citrine, Corundum, Garnet. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Vaugh is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Beryl, Rose Quartz, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Haleakala National Park is a documented mineral occurrence near HI. Reported specimens include Augite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Kailua Area (North) is a documented mineral occurrence near HI. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Kailua Area (South) is a documented mineral occurrence near HI. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Kapa’a Quarry (private area, obtain permission first) is a documented mineral occurrence near HI. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Analcime, Chabazite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Olowalu Valley is a documented mineral occurrence near HI. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Burlington (geodes) is a documented mineral occurrence near IA. Reported specimens include Lake Superior Agate, Quartz crystals, Geodes. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Keokuk Geode with Calcite is a documented rockhounding destination in IA. Collectors visit for quartz geodes, chalcedony, calcite and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Glacial till along northwest Iowa lakes occasionally yields Lake Superior agate transported from northern source regions.
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Muscatine (agate) is a documented mineral occurrence near IA. Reported specimens include Lake Superior Agate, Moss Agate, Chalcedony, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Orient Area is a documented mineral occurrence near IA. Reported specimens include Agate, Quartz crystals, Petrified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Antelope Creek area is a documented mineral occurrence near ID. Reported specimens include Geodes, Quartz, Amethyst. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Garnet-bearing mica schist outcrops in the Salmon River Mountains weather out dark red almandine crystals.
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Burke is a documented mineral occurrence near ID. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Dismal Swamp is a documented mineral occurrence near ID. Reported specimens include Smokey Quartz, Topaz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Gold Hill Quartz is a mineral prospect in Idaho, Idaho, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Gold.
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Idaho City is a documented mineral occurrence near ID. Reported specimens include Quartz, Garnet. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Indian Point Tourmaline - Quartz Group is a known mineral occurrence in Lemhi, Idaho, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Cobalt, Copper, Malachite, Nickel.
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Lewiston is a documented mineral occurrence near ID. Reported specimens include Agate, Aquamarine, Garnet, Gold, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pole Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near ID. Reported specimens include Geodes, Amethyst, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Potosi Mine is a mineral prospect in Shoshone, Idaho, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Galena, Malachite, Quartz crystals.
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Priest Lake is a documented mineral occurrence near ID. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Feldspar Crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ruby Meadows is a documented mineral occurrence near ID. Reported specimens include Corundum, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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A family-operated opal mine in eastern Idaho offering fee digs in opal-bearing rhyolite tuff with visible opal seams.
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St. Joe Quartz Prospect is a known mineral occurrence in Shoshone, Idaho, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Galena, Malachite, Sphalerite.
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Upper Priest Lake is a documented mineral occurrence near ID. Reported specimens include Gold, Feldspar crystals, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Wildhorse Canyon is a documented mineral occurrence near ID. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Chicago area dolomite quarries historically produced small quartz geodes; remaining access is limited to creek exposures west of the city.
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Crystal Glen Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near IL. Reported specimens include Geodes, Barite, Calcite, Dolomite, Goethite, Pyrite, Quartz, Selenite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site in the Grand Tower Limestone, Coles County, Illinois. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Mississippi River (near Hamilton) is a documented mineral occurrence near IL. Reported specimens include Geodes, Amethyst, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Spillman Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near IL. Reported specimens include Geodes, Pyrite, Chalcedony, Sphalerite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Brown County is a documented mineral occurrence near IN. Reported specimens include Corundum, Quartz, Topaz, Diamond. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Brown County State Park is a documented mineral occurrence near IN. Reported specimens include Geodes, marcasite, aragonite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Corydon is a documented mineral occurrence near IN. Reported specimens include Calcite, Fluorite, Dolomite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Monroe County limestone quarries and creeks near Bloomington historically produced geodes in the Harrodsburg Limestone.
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Georgia is a documented mineral occurrence near IN. Reported specimens include Barite crystals, Dolomite, Strontianite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Huntington is a documented mineral occurrence near IN. Reported specimens include Calcite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Quartz geodes, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Logansport is a documented mineral occurrence near IN. Reported specimens include Apatite, Calcite crystals, Pyrite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Morgan County is a documented mineral occurrence near IN. Reported specimens include Quartz, Corundum, Topaz, Diamond. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Northern Indiana extension of the Midwest geode belt continues Warsaw Formation exposures with quartz-lined nodules in streams.
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Williams Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near IN. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Garnett is a documented mineral occurrence near KS. Reported specimens include Crystals, Fossils. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Smoky Hill River (amber) is a documented mineral occurrence near KS. Reported specimens include Amber, Barite Roses. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Smoky Hill River (chalk) is a documented mineral occurrence near KS. Reported specimens include Chalk. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Smoky Hill River (moss agate) is a documented mineral occurrence near KS. Reported specimens include Moss Agate, Chalk. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Smoky Hills River is a documented mineral occurrence near KS. Reported specimens include Agatized Wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Shortgrass prairie preserves of western Kansas expose chalk and agate nodules in eroded badland draws near the Smoky Hill River.
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Yates Center is a documented mineral occurrence near KS. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Big Four Fault is a documented mineral occurrence near KY. Reported specimens include Anglesite, Cerussite, Fluorite, Galena, Pyromorphite, Smithsonite, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Birdsville is a documented mineral occurrence near KY. Reported specimens include Calcite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Carrsville is a documented mineral occurrence near KY. Reported specimens include Calcite, Fluorite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Eastern Kentucky limestone formations in the Big Sandy River valley occasionally yield small quartz geodes in creek gravels.
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Graves County is a documented mineral occurrence near KY. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Chert, Jasper, Quartz, Silicified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Green River is a documented mineral occurrence near KY. Reported specimens include Geodes, quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Kentucky Lake is a documented mineral occurrence near KY. Reported specimens include Geodes, Jasper, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lincoln County is a documented mineral occurrence near KY. Reported specimens include Geodes, Quartz, Celestite, Goethite, Fluorite, Pyrite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Little Sandy River is a documented mineral occurrence near KY. Reported specimens include Apatite, Almandine Garnet, Chromite, Diopside, Feldspar, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Central Kentucky geode and vein quartz sites near Livingston offer fee digging for crystal-lined geodes and calcite specimens.
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Limestone exposures near Toledo Bend Reservoir occasionally produce calcite crystal pockets in road cuts and creek banks.
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Chester pegmatite district in the Berkshires produced beryl crystals and is a classic New England mineral locality.
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Central Massachusetts pegmatites near Petersham in the Worcester Range contain beryl and tourmaline in muscovite-rich zones.
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Lily Pond is a documented mineral occurrence near MA. Reported specimens include Emerald, Goshenite, Smoky Quartz, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Monument Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near MA. Reported specimens include Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Quartz veins and fluorite occurrences in metamorphic rock of Mount Wachusett attract collectors to reservation road cuts.
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Pittsfield is a documented mineral occurrence near MA. Reported specimens include Green Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Plainfield is a documented mineral occurrence near MA. Reported specimens include Ankerite, Garnet, Quartz crystals, Rhodochrosite, Rhodonite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Reynolds Mine at Beryl Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near MA. Reported specimens include Beryl, Smoky Quartz, Muscovite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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West Chesterfield is a documented mineral occurrence near MA. Reported specimens include Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Westfield is a documented mineral occurrence near MA. Reported specimens include Chiastolite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Wrentham area mines historically produced rhodonite, Massachusetts's state gem, in metamorphic manganese deposits.
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Baltimore County is a documented mineral occurrence near MD. Reported specimens include Copper minerals, Quartz, Garnet, Tourmaline, Aquamarine, Beryl, Marble. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bare Hills mining district is a documented mineral occurrence near MD. Reported specimens include Actinolite, Malachite, Epidote, Feldspar, Garnet, Moss Agate, Pyrite, Quartz, Serpentine, Tremolite, Zoisite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Beltsville is a documented mineral occurrence near MD. Reported specimens include Hyalite Opal, Quartz crystals, Silicified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Castleton is a documented mineral occurrence near MD. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Chrome Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near MD. Reported specimens include Smoky Quartz, Actinolite, Bronzite, Garnet, Chromite, Serpentine. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Dollyhyde Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near MD. Reported specimens include Bornite, Pink Calcite, Covellite, Malachite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Flintville is a documented mineral occurrence near MD. Reported specimens include Feldspar crystals, Garnet, Mica, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Granite is a documented mineral occurrence near MD. Reported specimens include Quartz, Garnet, Tourmaline, Copper minerals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hancock is a documented mineral occurrence near MD. Reported specimens include Fossils, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Marriottsville is a documented mineral occurrence near MD. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ocean City is a documented mineral occurrence near MD. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Patapsco Valley State Park exposes quartzite ridges and quartz veins in the Baltimore Piedmont for geological observation.
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Reed Mine & Walkens Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near MD. Reported specimens include Chromite, Brucite, Quartz, Serpentine, Soapstone. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Acton Lead Mines is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Andalusite, Arsenopyrite, Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Goethite, Gold, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Silver, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bemis Stream Prospect is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Albite, Beryl, Green Elbaite Tourmaline, Blue Fluorapatite, Purple Fluorapatite, Feldspar, Mica, Quartz, Spessartine Garnet, Sphalerite, Spodumene. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bumpus Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Albite, Almandine Garnet, Autunite, Golden Beryl, Aquamarine, Mica, Columbite, Fluorapatite, Feldspar, Quartz, Rose Quartz, Smoky Quartz, Schorl, Zircon. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Catherine Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Molybdenite, Granite, Quartz crystals, Biotite, Fluorapatite, Hornblende, Magnetite, Microcline, Pyrite, Scheelite, Stilbite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Western Maine pegmatites near Stow contain amethyst quartz in miarolitic cavities of granite pegmatite dikes.
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Edgecomb Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Almandine Garnet, Beryl, Aquamarine, Biotite, Feldspar, Muscovite, Smokey Quartz, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Maine pegmatite belt quarries near Hebron and Oxford produced gem-quality tourmaline and beryl for over a century.
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Havey is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Albite, Almandine Garnet, Beryl, Biotite, Columbite, Mica, Aquamarine, Chalcopyrite, Schorl, Quartz, Zircon, Elbaite, Thorogummite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hedgehog Hill Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Albite, Almandine Garnet, Beryl, Mica, Chrysoberyl, Fluorapatite, Feldspar, Quartz, Smokey Quartz, Schorl. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lord Hill Mineral is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Feldspar, Quartz, Topaz, Phenakite, Garnet. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lubec Lead Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Anglesite, Bornite, Calcite, Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Dolomite, Epidote, Galena, Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite, Quartz, Smithsonite, Wulfenite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mount Apatite Quarries is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Albite, Almandine Garnet, Arsenopyrite, Autunite, Green Beryl, Pink Beryl, Aquamarine, Biotite, Green Elbaite Tourmaline, Fluorapatite, Lepidolite, Pyrite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mount Mica near Paris is America's first gem pegmatite mine, producing tourmaline and beryl since the 1820s.
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Perry is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Analcime, Calcite, Datolite, Malachite, Prehnite, Agate, Amethyst, Bloodstone, Chalcedony, Quartz, Stilbite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pitts Garnet Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Actinolite, Calcite, Diopside, Garnet, Molybdenite, Quartz, Titanite, Clinozoisite, Clinochlore, Beryl, Feldspar, Muscovite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Poland Mining Camps (paid area) is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Quartz, Feldspar, Beryl, Mica, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Porcupine Hill Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Albite, Almandine Garnet, Beryl, Biotite, Columbite, Green Elbaite Tourmaline, Fluorapatite, Quartz crystals, Schorl. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ragged Jack Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Almandine Garnet, Chrysoberyl, Fluorapatite, Feldspar, Mica, Quartz, Schorl. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Scribner Ledge Quarry & Crocker Hill Mines is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Graphite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Quartz, Sericite, Albite, Almandine Garnet, Arsenopyrite, Beryl, Columbite, Feldspar, Schorl. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Singepole Mountain Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Almandine Garnet, Beryl, Biotite, Fluorapatite, Microcline, Muscovite, Quartz, Schorl. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Carnelian beach is a documented mineral occurrence near MI. Reported specimens include Agate nodules, Carnelian, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Jasper Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near MI. Reported specimens include Jasper, Jaspilite, Hematite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Tobin Harbor Area is a documented mineral occurrence near MI. Reported specimens include Agate, Carnelian, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Caledonia is a documented mineral occurrence near MN. Reported specimens include Calcite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ely is a documented mineral occurrence near MN. Reported specimens include Jasper, Quartz crystals, Chalcedony. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Alice Mine near Elijah is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Dolomite, Greenockite, Pyrite, Quartz, Smithsonite, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Chariton River is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Calcite crystals, Goethite, Quartz, Septarian Nodules. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Cole County is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Barite, Calcite, Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Dolomite, Hematite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite, Quartz, Sphalerite, Smithsonite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Copper Hill Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Azurite, Barite, Chalcopyrite, Gypsum, Hematite, Malachite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fabius River is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Geodes, calcite, malachite, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite, aragonite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fredericktown is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Aragonite, Azurite, Calcite, Cerussite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Dolomite, Galena, Malachite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Quartz, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Graniteville is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Actinolite, Apatite, Beryl, Fluorite, Galena, Hematite, Magnetite, Orthoclase, Quartz (smoky quartz), Topaz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Indian Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Iron Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Yellow Garnet, Apatite, Barite, Calcite, Diopside, Dolomite, Epidote, Fluorite, Galena, Magnetite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Moselle Iron Mines is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Arsenopyrite, Azurite, Chalcopyrite, Hematite, Malachite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Newark is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Goethite, Malachite, Pyrite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Old Mines is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Barite, Calcite, Galena, Goethite, Malachite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Chert, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ruepple Iron Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Goethite, Hematite, Marcasite, Melanterite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite, Azurite, Copper, Cuprite, Gypsum. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Scotia is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Azurite, Goethite, Hematite, Malachite, Pyrite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Shepherd Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Fluorite, Hematite, Magnetite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Simmons Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Hematite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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St. Francisville is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Geodes, barite, calcite, fluorite, malachite, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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St. Francois County is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Barite, Goethite, Pyrite, Quartz, Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Sphalerite, Smithsonite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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St. Louis (barite area) is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Barite, Calcite, Goethite, Pyrite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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St. Louis (calcite area) is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Calcite crystals, Millerite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Eastern Missouri geode belt centers on Ste. Genevieve County where Warsaw Formation geodes occur in stream banks and fields.
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Steelville is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Allophane, Amethyst, Azurite, Dolomite, Galena, Goethite, Hematite, Malachite, Marcasite, Quartz, Pyrite, Rutile. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Troy is a documented mineral occurrence near MO. Reported specimens include Calcite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Millerite, Quartz, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Sandstone and limestone outcrops in Tishomingo State Park region of northeast Mississippi occasionally contain small geode nodules.
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Basin (Cataract, Comet) District is a historic mining site in Jefferson, Montana, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Cassiterite, Copper, Galena, Gold, Kyanite, Quartz crystals.
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Carbella is a documented mineral occurrence near MT. Reported specimens include Agate, Jasper, Petrified wood, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Cincinnatti Quartz Lode Claim is a mineral prospect in Granite, Montana, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Galena, Gold, Malachite.
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A developed Forest Service crystal scree site in the Pioneer Mountains where visitors dig in loose quartz crystals from decomposed pegmatite.
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Crystal Park (paid area) is a documented mineral occurrence near MT. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fairview Quartz Lode Claim is a known mineral occurrence in Granite, Montana, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Galena, Malachite, Silver.
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Invincible Quartz Lode is a mineral prospect in Madison, Montana, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Galena, Gold, Malachite.
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Little Bill Placer Claim is a mineral prospect in Granite, Montana, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Feldspar, Garnet, Iron, Quartz crystals, Rutile, Zircon.
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Ohio Fraction Quartz Lode Claim is a known mineral occurrence in Granite, Montana, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Gold, Malachite, Silver.
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Ohio Quartz Lode Claim is a known mineral occurrence in Granite, Montana, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Galena, Malachite, Silver.
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Pioneer is a documented mineral occurrence near MT. Reported specimens include Gold, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Quartz crystals, Pyrite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pipestone is a documented mineral occurrence near MT. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pole Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near MT. Reported specimens include Garnet, Gold, Quartz crystals, Ruby, Sapphire. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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South Boulder River is a documented mineral occurrence near MT. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Starlight Quartz Lode Claim is a mineral prospect in Granite, Montana, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Galena, Gold, Malachite.
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Vijak Quartz Lode is a known mineral occurrence in Carbon, Montana, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Gold, Malachite, Silver.
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Big Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Garnet, Moonstone, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Broad River and tributaries is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bryson City is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Allanite, Garnet, Magnetite, Moonstone, Quartz crystals, Pyrite, Feldspar, Mica, Kyanite, Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bullock is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Epidote, Labradorite, Titanite, Hornblende, Quartz crystals, Clinozoisite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Burch is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Jasper, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Burlington is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Red Quartzite, Serpentine. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Burnsville is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Albite, Amazonite, Apatite, Aquamarine, Autunite, Beryl, Emerald, Fluorite, Garnet, Kyanite, Muscovite, Feldspar, Rutile crystals, Quartz crystals, Sunstone, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Cabin Creek & Dry Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Amethyst, quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Casar is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Agate, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Caswell County is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Gold, Allanite, Mica, Garnet, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Catawba is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Gold, Calcite, Magnetite, Rose Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Cherokee Ruby & Sapphire Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Ruby, Sapphire, Garnet, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Cowee Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Garnet, Ruby, Sapphire, Corundum, Beryl, Hornblende, Kyanite, Pyrite, Quartz, Rutile, Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Denver is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Elf is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Corundum, Amphibolite, Opal, Quartz crystals, Smaragdite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Elijah Mountain Gem Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Quartz crystals, Citrine, Amethyst, Garnet, Aventurine, Sodalite, Peridot, Opal, Fluorite, Aquamarine, Topaz, Tourmaline, Pyrite, Amazonite, Labradorite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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The only emerald mine in the United States open to the public for digging, in the Hiddenite gem district of Alexander County.
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Farmer is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fox Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Rutile crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Franklin is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Bronzite, Epidote, Fibrolite, Garnet, Jasper, Kyanite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Ruby, Rutile, Sapphire, Sphalerite, Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Gibsonville is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Green Quartz, Actinolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Grandmother Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Gold, Pyrite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Henderson Point is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Rutile crystals, Sillimanite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hiddenite is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Emerald, Quartz, Smoky Quartz, Amber Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hiddenite (area 2) is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Aquamarine, Beryl, Quartz, Rutile, Emerald, Hiddenite, Calcite, Dolomite, Black Tourmaline, Garnet. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Higdon Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Actinolite, Chalcedony, Chromite, Corundum, Enstatite, Magnetite, Opal, Quartz crystals, Ruby, Rutile, Sapphire, Spinel, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Highlands is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Corundum, Almandine Garnet, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hillsborough is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Moss Agate, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hollands Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Diamond, Platinum, Blue Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Huckleberry Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Mica, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Inez is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Beryl, Lepidolite, Smoky Quartz, Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Island Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Apatite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Hyalite Opal, Quartz crystals, Rhodochrosite, Scheelite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lattimore is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Quartz, Black Tourmaline, Beryl, Feldspar. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Little Pine Garnet Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Garnet, Quartz, Chlorite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Long Shoals Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Rock crystal. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lookout Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Kyanite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mason Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Corundum, Garnet, Hornblende, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Montgomery County is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Quartz, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mooresville is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Agate, Amethyst, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Moria is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Pyrite crystals, Limonite cubes. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mount Airy is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Feldspar, Quartz crystals, Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mount Ulla is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mt. Tirzah is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Actinolite, Hematite, Limonite, Manganese, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Nebo is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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New River is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Magnetite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Nutbrush Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Gem-quality minerals, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Otto is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Garnet, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pilot Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Piney Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Rock crystal, manganese, rutile. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pink Beds Picnic Area is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Plumtree is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Gem Feldspar crystals, Garnet. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Poplar Springs is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Rutile crystals, Limonite, Quartz, Spodumene. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pressley Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Albite, Amphibolite, Corundum, Damourite, Sapphire, Epidote, Garnet, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Reed Gold Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Azurite, Gold, Malachite, Quartz crystals, Scheelite, Sphalerite, Siderite, Cuprite, Barite, Galena. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Roberson Ridge is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Ankerite, Apatite, Biotite, Garnet, Muscovite, Pyrrotite, Quartz crystals, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Shelby is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Gem crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Shinning Rock Ledge is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Rose Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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South Mountains is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Aquamarine, Beryl, Feldspar, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Spruce Pine is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Actinolite crystals, Talc, Steatite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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The Spruce Pine district hosts massive pegmatites that supply industrial quartz and feldspar; collector access is mostly observational on public roads.
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Statesville is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Agate, Amethyst, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Stice Shoal Lake Dam is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Aquamarine, Beryl, Emerald, Mica, Smoky Quartz, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Stony Point is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Chlorite, Goethite, Monazite, Quartz crystals, Spodumene. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Superior Stone Company is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Copper, Iron minerals, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Townsvill is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Unaka is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Staurolite, Agate, Epidote, Pink Feldspar, Gold Placer, Petrified wood, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Vengeance Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Calcite, Garnet, Quartz crystals, Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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White Plains is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Beryl, Columbite, Quartz crystals, Rutile, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Williamsboro is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Wiseman's View is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Sandstone. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Woodlawn is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Phantom Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Yadkin River is a documented mineral occurrence near NC. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Glacial erratics of the Sheyenne River valley include granite boulders and transported agates in Sheyenne State Forest.
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Lisbon is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Quartz gemstones, Teredo petrified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Sheyenne River is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Quartz gemstones, Petrified wood, Fossils. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Souris River is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Quartz gemstones, Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Fossils. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Tongue River is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Calcite crystals, Fossils. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Turtle Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Quartz gemstones, Agate, Chalcedony. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pine Ridge is a documented mineral occurrence near NE. Reported specimens include Quartz concretions, Agate, Petrified wood, Fossils. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Beech Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Golden Beryl, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Beryl Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Beryl, Rose Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Conway is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Feldspar, Smoky Quartz, Topaz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Northern New Hampshire pegmatites near Deer Hill have produced amethyst quartz crystals in forest exposures near the Canadian border.
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Deer Hill Mineral is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Quartz, Feldspar, Beryl, Garnet, Columbite, Pyrite, Muscovite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Derry Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Beryl, Rose Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hanover is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Jasper, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hurricane Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lord Hill Mineral is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Feldspar, Quartz, Topaz, Garnet. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Moat Mountain mineral collecting area in the White Mountains yields smoky quartz and amazonite in pegmatite boulders.
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Mount Kearsage is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Rose Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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North Groton is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Aquamarine, Beryl, Lazulite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Palermo Mine pegmatites near North Groton produced triphylite and montebrasite crystals among New Hampshire's finest mineral specimens.
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Pillsbury Ridge is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Aquamarine, Beryl, Amethyst, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Raymond is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Feldspar, Beryl, Garnet, Rose Quartz, Spodumene. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Redstone is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Apatite, Quartz, Smoky Quartz, Topaz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Smoky Quartz is a documented rockhounding destination in NH. Collectors visit for quartz crystals, calcite and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Victor Head is a documented mineral occurrence near NH. Reported specimens include Albite, Amethyst, Beryl, Chlorite, Feldspar, Fluorite, Limonite, Muscovite, Pyrite, Smoky Quartz, Sericite, Topaz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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3M Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Quartz, Agate, Jasper, Quartz family minerals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Atlantic County is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Barnardsville is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Agate, Geodes, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bergen Hill by Hudson River is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Banded Agate, Albite, Amethyst, Analcime, Apatite, Calcite crystals, Datolite, Epidote, Galena, Malachite, Common Opal, Fire Opal, Quartz crystals, Siderite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bound Brook is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Agate, Bornite, Calcite, Chalcocite, Copper, Silver, Prehnite, Quartz crystals, Cuprite, Malachite, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Cape May is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Chalcedony. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Wave-polished quartz pebbles called Cape May diamonds concentrate on southern New Jersey beaches along Delaware Bay.
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General Area (Hudson/Passaic) is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Banded Agate, Albite, Amethyst, Analcime, Apatite, Calcite crystals, Datolite, Epidote, Galena, Malachite, Common Opal, Fire Opal, Quartz crystals, Siderite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Kingston is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Agate, Prehnite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lambertville is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Axinite crystals, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Long Branch is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Manasquan is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Fossils, Petrified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mine Hill (bornite) is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Bornite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Garnet, Hematite, Magnetite, Pyrite crystals, Quartz crystals, Spinel, Sunstone, Tremolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ocean County is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pompton Lakes is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Banded Agate, Amethyst, Barite, Calcite, Chalcedony, Cuprite, Datolite, Dolomite, Galena, Goethite, Hematite, Opal, Prehnite, Quartz, Silver. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Prospect Park Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Banded Agate, Amethyst, Barite, Calcite, Chalcedony, Cuprite, Datolite, Dolomite, Galena, Goethite, Hematite, Opal, Prehnite, Quartz, Silver. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Rock Hill Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Albite, Chalcocite, Chrysocolla, Galena, Goethite, Malachite, Prehnite, Quartz gemstones, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Snake Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Banded Agate, Albite, Amethyst, Analcime, Apatite, Calcite crystals, Datolite, Epidote, Galena, Malachite, Common Opal, Fire Opal, Quartz crystals, Siderite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Somerville is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Agate, Albite, Datolite, Copper, Silver, Quartz crystals, Serpentine. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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The Palisades is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Banded Agate, Albite, Amethyst, Analcime, Apatite, Calcite crystals, Datolite, Epidote, Galena, Malachite, Common Opal, Fire Opal, Quartz crystals, Siderite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Warren Township is a documented mineral occurrence near NJ. Reported specimens include Banded Agate, Moss Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Petrified wood, Quartz crystals, Amethyst, Citrine, Sard. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Artesia is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Pecos Diamonds. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fort Sumner is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals (rose, red, smoky), Pecos diamonds. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fort Sumner (Pecos diamonds) is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Pecos Diamonds. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Harding Pegmatite Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Blue Apatite, Bityite, Eucryptite, Purple Lepidolite, Rose Muscovite, Quartz crystals, Spodumene, Green Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hatch is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hatch (goethite area) is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Goethite, Fluorite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Kingston is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Quartz clusters. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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La Madera is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Calcite crystals, Limonite crystals, Geodes. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lake Arthur is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Aragonite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Leggett Peak is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Agate, Amethyst, Quartz crystal clusters. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Luna (agate area) is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Oscura Mountains is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Chrysocolla, Chalcocite, Atacamite, Azurite, Barite, Celestite, Cerussite, Dolomite crystals, Galena, Limonite, Malachite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Petaca is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Pink Feldspar, Mica, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Rose Quartz and Gambler is a known mineral occurrence in Socorro, New Mexico, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Gold, Malachite, Silver.
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Roswell is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Tres Hermanas Mts is a documented mineral occurrence near NM. Reported specimens include Dumortierite, Hydrozincite, Pyrolusite, Quartz crystals, Smithsonite, Willemite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Aurora Ghost Town is a documented mineral occurrence near NV. Reported specimens include Jasper, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Beatty (blue quartz area) is a documented mineral occurrence near NV. Reported specimens include Blue Quartz, Marble, Phyllite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Blue Quartz Mine is a known mineral occurrence in Clark, Nevada, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Barite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Gold, Malachite.
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Gold Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near NV. Reported specimens include Citrine, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Goldfield is a documented mineral occurrence near NV. Reported specimens include Alum, Pyrite, Quartz crystals, Copper, Gold, Lead, Manganese, Silver, Zinc. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Montezuma Peak is a documented mineral occurrence near NV. Reported specimens include Chalcedony, Chert, Jasper, Quartz crystals, Obsidian, Opalized wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Rainbow Ridge Opal Mines is a documented mineral occurrence near NV. Reported specimens include Varied local minerals and crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Tuscarora is a documented mineral occurrence near NV. Reported specimens include Citrine, Rose Quartz, Wonderstone. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ace of Diamonds & Herkimer Diamonds Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Herkimer Diamonds. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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A popular Herkimer County fee mine where visitors break dolomite matrix to extract brilliant quartz crystal clusters.
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Ancram area lead mines is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Barite, Galena, Sphalerite, Pyrite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Arnold Hill Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Jasper, Magnetite, Martite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Crystal Grove Diamond Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Herkimer Diamonds (Quartz Crystals). Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Diamond Mountain Mining is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Garnet, Epidote, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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General Area (Herkimer County 1) is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Herkimer Diamonds. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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General Area (Herkimer County 2) is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Herkimer Diamonds. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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General Area (Herkimer County 3) is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Herkimer Diamonds. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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World-famous doubly terminated quartz crystals called Herkimer diamonds occur in dolomite vugs of the Mohawk Valley near Herkimer.
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Limestone and dolomite exposures in Ulster County occasionally yield small quartz geodes in creek gravels of the Shawangunk foothills.
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Lake Harris is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Albite, Amphibole, Apatite, Diopside, Graphite, Muscovite, Phlogopite, Pyrite, Pyroxene, Smoky Quartz crystals, Scapolite, Tourmaline, Tremolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site in the Manlius, Herkimer County, New York. Environment: carbonate indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Lyon Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Aegirine, Albite, Apatite, Augite, Biotite, Calcite, Chlorite, Epidote, Hematite, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Molybdenite, Orthoclase, Perthite, Pyrite, Quartz, Stilbite, Wernerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mill Pond is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Rose Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site in the Herkimer, Utica County County, New York. Environment: transition zone/lower shoreface. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Pillar Point is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Barite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Sprakers is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Herkimer Diamonds, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Treasure Mountain Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near NY. Reported specimens include Quartz, Fluorite, Calcite, Galena. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bowling Green is a documented mineral occurrence near OH. Reported specimens include Barite crystals, Calcite, Celestite, Fluorite, Pyrite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Chillicothe is a documented mineral occurrence near OH. Reported specimens include Pyrite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Licking & Muskingum Counties is a documented mineral occurrence near OH. Reported specimens include Gem Flint, Chalcedony, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Muskingum County is a documented mineral occurrence near OH. Reported specimens include Agate, Amethyst, Carnelian, Chalcedony, Chert, Flint, Jasp-Agate, Jasper, Smoky Quartz crystals, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Adams County streams in southern Ohio continue the geode belt with crystal-lined nodules in creek gravels and banks.
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Altus is a documented mineral occurrence near OK. Reported specimens include Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Apache is a documented mineral occurrence near OK. Reported specimens include Fluorescent Calcite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hourglass Selenite Crystal is a documented rockhounding destination in OK. Collectors visit for quartz crystals, calcite and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Lake Spavinaw is a documented mineral occurrence near OK. Reported specimens include Cerussite, Galena, Magnetite, Goethite, Pyrite, Quartz crystals, Dolomite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Miami is a documented mineral occurrence near OK. Reported specimens include Aragonite, Barite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Chert, Dolomite, Galena, Gypsum, Marcasite, Quartz crystals, Pyrite, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Tahlequah is a documented mineral occurrence near OK. Reported specimens include Pyrite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Althouse Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near OR. Reported specimens include Agate, Garnets, Gold nuggets, Quartz crystals, Serpentine. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Brass Ledge Quartz Claim is a historic mining site in Josephine, Oregon, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Copper, Gold, Silver.
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Conger Quartz — gold occurrence in Jackson, documented by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI MILO-3).
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Durkee is a documented mineral occurrence near OR. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mt. Pisgah is a documented mineral occurrence near OR. Reported specimens include Agate, Calcite, Heulandite, Jasper, Malachite, Mesolite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Quartz Gulch — gold occurrence in Baker, documented by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI MILO-3).
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Quartz Mountain Gold Deposit is a mineral prospect in Lake, Oregon, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Cinnabar, Copper, Galena, Gold.
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Quartz Mountain Pass is a documented mineral occurrence near OR. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Record — gold, molybdenum, copper, silver, quartz(crystal) occurrence in Baker, documented by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI MILO-3).
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Aughwick Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Barite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Avondale is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Smoky Quartz, Rutile. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Birdsboro is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Zeolite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Blue Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Albite, Amazonite, Beryl, Feldspar, Sunstone, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bridgeport is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Calcite, Chalcedony, Dolomite, Goethite, Jasper, Malachite, Quartz crystals, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Brookdale Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Quartz, Pyromorphite, Azurite, Cerussite, Fluorite, Galena, Pyrite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Carlisle is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Banded Agate, Quartz crystals, Jasper, Amethyst. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Piedmont pegmatites of Chester County yielded feldspar and occasional beryl crystals for eastern Pennsylvania collectors.
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Chester Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Claysburg is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Chert, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Coatsville is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Beryl, Epidote, Garnet, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Crum Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Golden Beryl, Amethyst, Garnet, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Crystal Cave is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Geodes, Quartz crystals, Gemstones. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Derry is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Quartz, Chalcedony, Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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East Bradford is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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East Branch Naamanm Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Sphene, Quartz crystals, Garnet. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Easton is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Chert, Flint, Apatite, Diopside, Epidote, Pyrite, Quartz crystals, Serpentine, Williamsite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Eureka is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Gettysburg is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Copper, Chabazite, Epidote, Malachite, Quartz, Feldspar, Magnetite, Olivine. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Harrisburg is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Agate, Amethyst, Chalcedony, Andradite Garnet, Opal, Quartz crystals, Silicified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hauto is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Knauertown is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Apatite, Apophyllite, Azurite, Green Calcite, Chrysocolla, Malachite, Pyrite crystals, Quartz crystals, Rhodochrosite, Stilbite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Kunkeltown is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Azurite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lancaster is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Dogtooth Calcite, Fluorite, Hematite, Quartz crystal, Rutile. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lemont is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ligonier is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Fossils. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Little Rocky Ridge is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Hematite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mapleton is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Marple is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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McAdoo is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Anthracite coal district mine dumps near McAdoo contain pyrite cubes and siderite rhombs in shale matrix.
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Morrison Cove is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Amethyst, Calcite crystals, Herkimer diamonds. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mt. Pisgah is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Allanite, Autunite, Carnotite, Chlorite, Mica, Pyrite, Quartz, Uraninite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Philadelphia is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Agate, Petrified wood, Chalcedony, Chert, Jasper, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Riegelsville is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Jasper, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Sherman Valley is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Calcite, Chlorite, Orthoclase, Limonite, Quartz crystals, Tourmaline, Zircon. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Stroudsbrug is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Agatized coral, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Union Furnace is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Calcite crystals, Fluorite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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White Rocks is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Cryptomelane, Goethite, Fluorite, Quartz crystals, Tourmaline, Zircon. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Willowdale is a documented mineral occurrence near PA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Block Island beaches and Mohegan Bluffs clay cliffs yield glacial erratics and interesting pebbles washed from offshore deposits.
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Jamestown and Conanicut Island exposures of Narragansett Bay region pegmatite contain beryl and garnet in coastal outcrops.
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Cumberland Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near RI. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Abandoned quartzite quarries of Washington County expose quartz veins and garnet-bearing schist in western Rhode Island.
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Johnston is a documented mineral occurrence near RI. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Narragansett is a documented mineral occurrence near RI. Reported specimens include Beryl, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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North Providence is a documented mineral occurrence near RI. Reported specimens include Bowenite, Quartz, Serpentine. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Providence is a documented mineral occurrence near RI. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Tiverton is a documented mineral occurrence near RI. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bowens River and tributaries is a documented mineral occurrence near SC. Reported specimens include Corundum, Garnet, Sapphire, Emerald, Quartz crystals, Topaz, Zircon, Amethyst, Rutile. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Clearwater & Herse Valley is a documented mineral occurrence near SC. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Chalcedony, Ilmenite, Monazite, Quartz crystals, Smoky Quartz, Rutile crystals, Zircon. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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A popular Upstate South Carolina fee mine where visitors dig for amethyst, smoky quartz, and occasional citrine crystals.
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Gaffney is a documented mineral occurrence near SC. Reported specimens include Cassiterite, Feldspar crystals, Kyanite, Quartz crystals, Pyrrhotite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Haile Gold Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near SC. Reported specimens include Gold, Pyrite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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King's Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near SC. Reported specimens include Barite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Kyanite, Quartz crystals, Pyrite, Sillimanite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Liberty Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near SC. Reported specimens include Smoky Quartz, Zircon. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Myrtle Beach is a documented mineral occurrence near SC. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Quartz, Fossilized shark teeth, Megalodon teeth. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Paris Mt. State Park is a documented mineral occurrence near SC. Reported specimens include Beryl, Garnet, Quartz, Smoky Quartz, Sillimanite, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Shoals Junction is a documented mineral occurrence near SC. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ardmore is a documented mineral occurrence near SD. Reported specimens include Fairburn agates, Agatized wood, Jasper, Chalcedony, Rose quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Black Hills pegmatites near Keystone and Custer produced feldspar and mica for industry; collectors find quartz and beryl in old diggings.
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Elk Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near SD. Reported specimens include Barite, Calcite crystals, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Historic Homestake gold mine near Lead produced deep underground ore for 125 years; Sanford Lab restricts but region has mining museums.
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Keystone is a documented mineral occurrence near SD. Reported specimens include Tourmaline, Spodumene, Lepidolite, Autunite, Golden Beryl, Quartz crystals, Zircon, Aquamarine. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Knowles Lode Claim is a known mineral occurrence in Custer, South Dakota, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Beryl, Mica, Quartz crystals.
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Piedmont is a documented mineral occurrence near SD. Reported specimens include Selenite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Rattlesnake Butte is a documented mineral occurrence near SD. Reported specimens include Calcite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Rose Quartz is a documented rockhounding destination in SD. Collectors visit for quartz crystals, calcite and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Tin Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near SD. Reported specimens include Fluorapatite, Quartz crystals, Almandine Garnet, Cassiterite, Mica, Tourmaline, Zircon. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Big Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near TN. Reported specimens include Green Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Copperhill is a documented mineral occurrence near TN. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chalcopyrite, Garnet, Gold, Pyrite, Malachite, Quartz crystals, Staurolite, Chalcocite, Cuprite, Galena, Graphite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Limestone and shale units on the Cumberland Plateau contain hollow geodes with quartz and calcite crystals in road cuts and streams.
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Ducktown is a documented mineral occurrence near TN. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chalcopyrite, Garnet, Gold, Pyrite, Malachite, Quartz crystals, Staurolite, Chalcocite, Cuprite, Galena, Graphite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Gatlinburg is a documented mineral occurrence near TN. Reported specimens include Quartz, gemstones. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Great Smoky Mountains NP Sign is a documented rockhounding destination in TN. Collectors visit for mixed minerals and rocks and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Greene is a documented mineral occurrence near TN. Reported specimens include Calcite crystals, Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite, Golden Jasper, Pyrite, Quartz crystals, Barite, Jasper, Agate. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Little Tennessee River is a documented mineral occurrence near TN. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Monterey is a documented mineral occurrence near TN. Reported specimens include Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite, Fluorite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Springfield is a documented mineral occurrence near TN. Reported specimens include Gem Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Unaka Mountains is a documented mineral occurrence near TN. Reported specimens include Epidote, Quartz, Unakite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Wayne County is a documented mineral occurrence near TN. Reported specimens include Gem Chert, Agatized fossils, Flint, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Amethyst Hill on Althaus Ranch is a documented mineral occurrence near TX. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Citrine. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Babyhead to Miller Mt is a documented mineral occurrence near TX. Reported specimens include Llanite, Opal-quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Precambrian granite domes of the Llano Uplift expose unique llanite with blue quartz phenocrysts and collectible pink granite.
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Central Texas ranches around Mason allow fee hunting for pale blue topaz crystals in granite pegmatite gravels.
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Moss Ranch area near Enchanted Rock is a documented mineral occurrence near TX. Reported specimens include Epidote crystals, Pink Feldspar, Quartz, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Plata Verde Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near TX. Reported specimens include Anglesite, Barite, Bromargyrite, Malachite, Microcline, Quartz, Azurite, Chrysocolla. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ranches W of Mason is a documented mineral occurrence near TX. Reported specimens include Amazonite, Feldspar crystals, Quartz crystals, Blue Topaz, Clear Topaz, Black Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Streeter is a documented mineral occurrence near TX. Reported specimens include Amazonite, Feldspar crystals, Smoky Quartz, Blue Topaz, Clear Topaz, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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W side of Glass Mountains is a documented mineral occurrence near TX. Reported specimens include Moss Agate, Plume Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Agate is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Chert, Jasper, Opal, Opalized wood, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Alta is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Apatite, Biotite, Barite, Cerussite, Limonite, Rhodochrosite, Galena, Magnetite, Hornblende, Prehnite, Pyrite, Quartz, Sphene, Scheelite, Silver, Stilbite, Zircon. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Antelope Island is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Garnet, Azurite, Biotite, Chlorite, Chrysocolla, Epidote, Limonite, Magnetite, Malachite, Quartz, Sulfur, Zoisite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bullion Canyon is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Azurite, Barite, Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz, Pyrolusite, Selenite, Sphalerite, Sylvanite, Malachite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Cactus Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Azurite, Barite, Chalcopyrite, Goethite, Limonite, Magnetite, Malachite, Pyrite, Quartz, Selenite, Siderite, Stilbite, Tourmaline, Wollastonite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Desert Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Antlerite, Bornite, Fluorite, Hematite, Limonite, Magnetite, Pyrite, Cerussite, Galena, Quartz, Barite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Malachite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Expansive BLM desert west of Salt Lake City where nodules of quartz and chalcedony geodes can be found by surface searching and shallow digging.
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Finding salt crystals in 2009 is a documented rockhounding destination in UT. Collectors visit for quartz crystals, calcite and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Goshute Reservation is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Beryl, Muscovite, Quartz, Orthoclase. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Indian Peak is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Calcite, Fluorite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lincoln Gulch is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Azurite, Calcite, Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Epidote, Fluorite, Galena, Garnet, Malachite, Opal, Pyrite, Quartz, Tourmaline, Tremolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Little Cottonwood is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Apatite, Alunite, Biotite, Hornblende, Magnetite, Microcline, Feldspar, Pyrite, Quartz, Sphene, Sericite, Scheelite, Zircon. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Marysville is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Cinnabar, Alunite, Albite, Biotite, Calcite, Chlorite, Pyrolusite, Barite, Fluorite, Goethite, Amethyst, Quartz, Selenite, Opal. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Miner's Basin is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Actinolite, Calcite, Chalcedony, Chrysocolla, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Hematite, Malachite, Limonite, Quartz, Azurite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mineral Point is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Hematite, Quartz, Siderite, Specularite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Modena is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Argentite, Gold, Limonite, Pyrite, Fluorite, Garnet, Quartz, Selenium. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Newton District is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Gold, Pyrite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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San Francisco Mountains is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Diopside, Fluorite, Galena, Garnet, Pyrite, Scheelite, Sphalerite, Apatite, Biotite, Chlorite, Goethite, Copper, Magnetite, Quartz, Zircon. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Spor Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Fluorite, Bertrandite, Carnotite, Chalcedony, Chalcopyrite, Hematite, Magnetite, Pyrite, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Star Range is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Bismutite, Rhodochrosite, Fluorite, Quartz, Azurite, Cerussite, Galena, Malachite, Calcite, Garnet, Limonite, Pyrite, Wulfenite, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Thomas Range is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Agate, Beryl, Chalcedony, Fluorite, Garnet, Opal, Quartz, Topaz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Tintic Prince Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Galena, Quartz, Pyrite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Vipont Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Azurite, Cerussite, Copper, Chalcopyrite, Cuprite, Galena, Gold, Limonite, Malachite, Orpiment, Pyrite, Quartz, Realgar, Rhodochrosite, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Wah Wah Mountains is a documented mineral occurrence near UT. Reported specimens include Cerussite, Galena, Pyrite, Alunite, Autunite, Fluorite, Hematite, Limonite, Garnet, Topaz, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Amelia Court House is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Amazonite, Amethyst, Feldspar, Cleavelandite, Quartz crystals, Blue Topaz, Beryl, Tourmaline, Aquamarine, Fluorite, Garnet. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Arlington is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Blue Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ashland Mill is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Mica, Quartz, Moonstone, Amazonite, Feldspar, Gem Kyanite, Rutile. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Blakely Ridge fire tower is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Blue Gem Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Brokenburg is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Beryl, Feldspar, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Byrd Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Gold Placers, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Charlotte Courthouse is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Gem Amethyst, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Chestnut Creek Wetlands is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Chestnut Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Garnet, Biotite, Quartz crystals, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Chestnut Ridge is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Faber is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Azurite, Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Pyromorphite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fancy Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Floyd is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Glade Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Yellow Apatite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Picnic spot next to rose river with large gravel banks
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Gretna is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Blue Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hanks Knob is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Garnet, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz crystals, Rutile. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Henry County is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Blue Gem Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hurt is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Blue Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ladysmith is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Green Beryl, Feldspar, Quartz, Black Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Laurel Fork is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Loudon County is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Calcite, Datolite, Epidote, Natrolite, Stilbite, Diopside, Magnetite, Prehnite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Minnieville is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Amethyst crystals, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Moneta is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Garnet, Pyrite, Quartz crystals, Rutile, Perthite, Tourmaline, Zoisite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Peaks of Otter is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Beryl, Columbite, Feldspar, Garnet, Quartz crystals, Amethyst, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Red Hill Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Epidote crystals, Microcline, Unakite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Red House is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Amethyst crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Riverton is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Calcite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Rose River is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Unakite, Gem Epidote, Jasper, Blue Quartz, Smoky Quartz, Quartz, Black Chert. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Roseland is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Blue Quartz, Ilmenite, Rutile crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Sayler's Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Amethyst crystals, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Shadwell is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Green Gem Quartzite, Unakite, Epidote. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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South Fork Shenandoah River is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Spottswood is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Spruce Run is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Staurolite crystal is a documented rockhounding destination in VA. Collectors visit for quartz crystals, calcite and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Another Amelia pegmatite operation where collectors dig for quartz and amazonite in clay-rich pocket zones.
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Trevilians is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Tye River Gap is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Epidote, Unakite, Beryl, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Blue Ridge amethyst quartz occurs in vesuvius area pegmatites and stream gravels of George Washington National Forest.
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Walker Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near VA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Agate. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Adams Brook is a documented mineral occurrence near VT. Reported specimens include Serpentine, Quartz, Red Agate, Orange Agate, Green Agate. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bennington is a documented mineral occurrence near VT. Reported specimens include Blue Quartz, cabochon material, Garnet, Feldspar, Biotite, Hornblende. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Devil's Den is a documented mineral occurrence near VT. Reported specimens include Smoky Quartz, Quartz, Pyrite, Ilmenite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Vershire-Ely copper mines in Orange County produced secondary copper minerals in Vermont's historic mining district.
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Fairhaven is a documented mineral occurrence near VT. Reported specimens include Pyrite, Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Quartz, Calcite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Gassetts is a documented mineral occurrence near VT. Reported specimens include Quartz, Garnet, Tourmaline, Staurolite, Kyanite crystals, Actinolite, Diopside, Calcite, Sphene, Pyrite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Grand Isle is a documented mineral occurrence near VT. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Calcite crystals, Pyrite concretions. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lamoille River is a documented mineral occurrence near VT. Reported specimens include Dolomite crystals, Chalcopyrite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Perkinsville is a documented mineral occurrence near VT. Reported specimens include Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Chlorite, Ilmenite, Smoky Quartz, Calcite, Actinolite, Biotite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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South Alburg is a documented mineral occurrence near VT. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bald Butte is a documented mineral occurrence near WA. Reported specimens include Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Chattaroy is a documented mineral occurrence near WA. Reported specimens include Garnet, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Denny Mt. is a documented mineral occurrence near WA. Reported specimens include Rock crystal. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Forest roads near Hansen Creek in the Cascades access pegmatite zones where blue-green amazonite and smoky quartz crystals weather out of decomposed granite.
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Long Beach is a documented mineral occurrence near WA. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lyman Lake is a documented mineral occurrence near WA. Reported specimens include Gold, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mt. Adams is a documented mineral occurrence near WA. Reported specimens include Agate, Carnelian, Chalcedony, Jasper, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ocean Park is a documented mineral occurrence near WA. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Quartz & Pyrite specimen from Spruce Ridge. is a documented rockhounding destination in WA. Collectors visit for quartz crystals, calcite and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Tunk Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near WA. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Blue Corundum, Pink Corundum, Thulite, Plagioclase. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Volcanic breccia near Walker Valley in the North Cascades foothills has produced quartz-lined geodes prized by local clubs.
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Abelman's Gorge area is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals, Quartzite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Cassville is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Agate, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Chippewa County is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Lake Superior Agate, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Dresser Trap Rock Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Actinolite, Augite, Bornite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Chrysotile, Copper, Cuprite, Epidote, Hematite, Magnetite, Plagioclase, Quartz, Zoisite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Farr Lake S.E. Area is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Beryl, Quartz, Spodumene, Zinnwaldite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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General Area is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Almandite, Biotite, Kyanite, Muscovite, Quartz, Plagioclase, Sillimanite, Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Apostle Islands and Chequamegon Bay shorelines yield Lake Superior agates in cobble beaches after wave action.
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Montreal Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Actinolite, Barite, Selenite, Braunite, Calcite, Celestine, Dickite, Dolomite, Galena, Goethite, Gypsum, Hematite, Magnetite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Siderite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ounce Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Agate, Azurite, Bornite, Chlorite, Copper, Diopside, Epidote, Malachite, Quartz, Silver. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pine River Reservoir is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Quartz, Kyanite, Hematite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Rib Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Rhodochrosite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Tigerton is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Bertrandite, Gem Beryl, Quartz, Phenakite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Southeast Wisconsin dolomite formations occasionally yield small quartz geodes in area creek exposures and construction cuts.
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Alderson is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Berkeley County is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Calcite, Dolomite crystals, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Berkeley Springs is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Calcite, Jasper, Pyrite cubes, Quartz crystals, Selenite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fort Spring is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Franklin is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Chert, Smoky Quartz, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Frazer is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Greer is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Pink Calcite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Harman is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Calcite, Dolomite crystals, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Judy Gap is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Calcite crystals, Dolomite crystals, Smoky Quartz, Travertine. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Knobly Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Celestite crystals (blue), Blue Calcite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Lewisburg is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Moss Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Chert nodules, Iron, Manganese, Psilomelane, Smoky Quartz. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Petersburg is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Calcite, Dolomite, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Quartz crystal pockets occur in limestone and sandstone of the Smoke Hole canyon region along the South Branch Potomac.
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Snickers Gap is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Blue Amphibole, Green Amphibole, Quartz, Epidote. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Union is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Williamsburg is a documented mineral occurrence near WV. Reported specimens include Silicified Coral, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Atlantic City is a documented mineral occurrence near WY. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Gold, Nephrite jade, Jade, Jasper, Muscovite, Quartz crystals, Agatized wood, Opalized wood, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Blacks Fork Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near WY. Reported specimens include Silicified algae, Turritella Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Quartz crystals, Petrified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Box Elder Canyon is a documented mineral occurrence near WY. Reported specimens include Geodes, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Buffalo is a documented mineral occurrence near WY. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Gastroliths, Jasper, Petrified wood, Quartz crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Farson is a documented mineral occurrence near WY. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Chert, Jasper, Quartz crystals, Silicified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Kemmerer is a documented mineral occurrence near WY. Reported specimens include Turritella Agate, Chalcedony, Chert, Jasper, Quartz crystals, Petrified wood, Silicified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Kirwin Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near WY. Reported specimens include Azurite, Barite, Chalcopyrite, Cuprite, Galena, Gold, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite, Quartz crystals, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Red Desert is a documented mineral occurrence near WY. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Chert, Jasper, Quartz crystals, Silicified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Rock Springs is a documented mineral occurrence near WY. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Chert, Jasper, Quartz crystals, Silicified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Sweetwater County is a documented mineral occurrence near WY. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Chert, Jasper, Petrified wood, Silicified wood, Quartz crystals, Turritella Agate. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Warm Springs is a documented mineral occurrence near WY. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Jade, Nephrite jade, Quartz crystals, Silicified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
View detailsUse crystal hunting near me GPS and the quartz map below. Arkansas fee digs and Herkimer mines are reliable starter destinations if you want managed digging.
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