
Hogg Mine
A famous Georgia pegmatite mine offering fee digs for aquamarine beryl, rose quartz, and black tourmaline crystals.
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Use this page as your Georgia rockhounding map — Georgia has 136 rockhounding sites in our directory, including 27 quartz & crystals, 17 agate & jasper, 5 gemstones, 31 fossils, 10 gold & minerals. Use rockhounding sites near me for live distance sorting or browse by city.
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By specimen type: Quartz & Crystals (27) · Agate & Jasper (17) · Gemstones (5) · Fossils (31) · Gold & Minerals (10) · Other (46)
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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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Amethyst crystals in iron-stained quartz geodes occur at this Wilkes County fee dig site in the Georgia Piedmont.
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The Georgia side of Graves Mountain exposes iridescent pyrite and rutile crystals in pyrophyllite-rich metamorphic rock.
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Pegmatite dikes near Ball Ground in the Georgia Blue Ridge foothills have produced beryl and tourmaline for regional collectors.
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Akin Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Gold, Kyanite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Albany is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Red Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Alec Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Corundum, Garnet. 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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Arabia Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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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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Autry Mill Nature Preserve is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Corundum. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Baggs Branch is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Gold. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ball Ground is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Pegmatite dikes near Ball Ground in the Georgia Blue Ridge foothills have produced beryl and tourmaline for regional collectors.
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Banks County is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Beryl. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Barlow Cuts is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Gold sulfides. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bean Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Gold. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bluff Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bowersville is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Sillimanite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Brasstown Church is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Sillimanite, Kyanite, Biotite, Muscovite. 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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Bull Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Petrified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Carrollton is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Asbestos, Garnet, Olivine. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Cartersville is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Barite, Geodes, Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Iron, Manganese. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Charlie’s Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Amethyst. 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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Chattahoochee Ridge is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Itacolumite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Chattahoochee River is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Chalcedony, Chert, Flint, Jasper, Opal, Opalized wood. 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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Clarksville is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Banded Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
View details![Cm Loc. S-228 - Griffins Landing [griffins Landing Mbr, Dry Branch Fm] — fossil rockhounding site near Georgia, GA](/images/locations/fallback/fossils-card.webp)
Fossil collection site in the Dry Branch, Burke County, Georgia. Environment: coastal indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Cole’s Crossing is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Columbus is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Silicified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Cordele is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Moss Agate, Jasper. 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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Cumming is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Ruby. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site, Georgia. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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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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Dodge County is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Tektites. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Dolly Cherry Property is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Kyanite, Staurolite. 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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Elf is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Corundum. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Emerson is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Barite, Geodes. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fannin County is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fincher Bluff is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Silicified Oolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fort Mountain and Cahutta Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Talc. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Gainesville is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Gold. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Garnet Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Garnets. 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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Gore is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Halloysite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Graves Mountain is a documented rockhounding destination in GA. 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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The Georgia side of Graves Mountain exposes iridescent pyrite and rutile crystals in pyrophyllite-rich metamorphic rock.
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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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Graves Mountain, Georgia is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Mixed minerals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Graysville is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Barite, Calcite, Purple Fluorite, Galena. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Green Property is a documented mineral site in Murray, Georgia, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Iron, Pyrolusite.
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Fossil collection site, Georgia. Environment: offshore. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Gumlog Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Corundum, Kyanite, Tourmaline. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hard Labor Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Corundum, Rutile, Pink Sapphire. 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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Fossil collection site in the Twiggs, Twiggs County, Georgia. Environment: marginal marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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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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Kingston is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Banded Agate, Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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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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Lake Tchukolaho is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Agate, Jasper, Opalite, Chalcedony. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Laurel Creek Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Corundum. 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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Lithonia is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Calcite, Epidote, Fluorite, Garnet, Thulite, Tourmaline, Zeolites. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site in the McBean, Burke County, Georgia. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the McBean, Sumter County, Georgia. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Clayton, Macon County, Georgia. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the McBean, Richmond County, Georgia. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the McBean, Burke County, Georgia. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Barnwell, Jefferson County, Georgia. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Macon is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Agate. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site, Chatham County, Georgia. Environment: marginal marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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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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Middle Georgia Regional Airport Area is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Beryl. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mill Creek Copper Prospect is a known mineral occurrence in Murray, Georgia, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Malachite.
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Milledgeville is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site, Georgia. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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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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Morrow is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Diamond. 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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Fossil collection site, Walker County, Georgia. Environment: shallow subtidal indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Lourdes, Whitfield County, Georgia. Environment: shallow subtidal indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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North Georgia Technical College is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Kyanite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site, Catoosa County, Georgia. Environment: offshore indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site, Walker County, Georgia. Environment: offshore indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site, Walker County, Georgia. Environment: offshore indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site, Walker County, Georgia. Environment: offshore indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site, Walker County, Georgia. Environment: offshore indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Oscarville is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Beryl. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Osierfield is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Tektites. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site in the Floyd Shale, Georgia. Environment: deep subtidal shelf. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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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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Powell Property is a mineral prospect in Murray, Georgia, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Iron, Pyrolusite.
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Fossil collection site, Clay County, Georgia. Environment: shallow subtidal indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the McBean, Clay County, Georgia. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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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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Fossil collection site, Taylor County, Georgia. Environment: terrestrial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Rising Fawn is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Halloysite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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River Road is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Agatized fossils. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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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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Round Oak is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Agate, Jasper, Petrified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site, Chatham County, Georgia. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Shark Tooth Fossil is a documented rockhounding destination in GA. Collectors visit for fossils, trilobites, dinosaur bone and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Sharp Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Staurolite. 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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Sparta is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Carnelian, Chalcedony, Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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State Fish Hatchery is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Banded Agate, Agate. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Staurolite is a documented rockhounding destination in GA. 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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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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Summerville is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Chert, Opal. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Tallapoosa River is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Ruby. 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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Tarr Creek near Dalton is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Jasper, Siliceous Oolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Tate is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Almandine, Kyanite, Mica, Staurolite. 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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Tom Coward Gap Prospect is a historic mining site in Rabun, Georgia, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Copper, Gold, Iron.
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Towns County is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Amethyst. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Trap Rock Gap is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Corundum, Ruby. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Turkey Hill is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Garnet, Gold, Ruby, Staurolite, Tourmaline, Zircon. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site, Glynn County, Georgia. Environment: coastal indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Ripley, Quitman County, Georgia. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Blufftown, Stewart County, Georgia. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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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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Villa Rica is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Pyrite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Warm Springs is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Agate, Chert, Jasper, Opal. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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White County is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Gold, Diamond, Topaz, Ruby, Aquamarine. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Windy Ridge and Mineral Bluff is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Withlacoochee River is a documented mineral occurrence near GA. Reported specimens include Agatized coral. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site, Bartow County, Georgia. Environment: cave. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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