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46 rockhounding collecting destinations in Maine.
Maine rockhounding map
Interactive pins for coordinate-verified, indexable listings in Maine. Click a marker for the full site page.
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How many rockhounding sites are in Maine?
Use this page as your Maine rockhounding map — Maine has 46 rockhounding sites in our directory, including 8 quartz & crystals, 2 agate & jasper, 4 gemstones, 5 fossils, 3 gold & minerals. Use rockhounding sites near me for live distance sorting or browse by city.
Near major cities: Bangor · Portland
By specimen type: Quartz & Crystals (8) · Gemstones (4) · Fossils (5) · Gold & Minerals (3) · Other (24)
Popular regions: Maine tourmaline pegmatites
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What to pack for Maine rockhounding trips
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Frequently asked questions
Where can I find rockhounding sites in Maine?
Our Maine rockhounding map lists 46 cataloged sites with GPS, fees, and specimen types at /states/maine/. Filter by type or use near-me GPS sorting from your location.
Is there a Maine rockhounding map?
Yes — the Maine state hub at /states/maine/ works as your rockhounding map with every listing, featured sites, and links to specimen-type subsets.
What can you find rockhounding in Maine?
Specimens vary by region — browse the Maine map for quartz, agate, geodes, fossils, and gems. Each listing notes primary targets and access rules.
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MixedME
Acadia National Park - Thunder Hole
Acadia National park - Thunder hole is a documented rockhounding destination in ME. 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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Acton Lead Mines
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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Amethyst From Mt. Apatite
Amethyst from Mt. Apatite is a documented rockhounding destination in ME. 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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AquamarineME
Baldpate Mountain
Baldpate Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Aquamarine. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bemis Stream Prospect
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
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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FossilME
Castine
Fossil collection site, Maine. Environment: coastal indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Catherine Mountain
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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Deer Hill (usfs) Amethyst)
Deer Hill (USFS) Amethyst) is a documented rockhounding destination in ME. 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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Deer Hill Amethyst Maine
Western Maine pegmatites near Stow contain amethyst quartz in miarolitic cavities of granite pegmatite dikes.
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Deer Hill Area Prospect
Deer Hill Area Prospect is a mineral prospect in Oxford, Maine, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Feldspar, Garnet, Gemstones, Mica.
View detailsAmethystME
Deer Hill Mineral
Deer Hill Mineral is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Amethyst, Feldspar, Beryl, Garnet, Columbite, Pyrite, Muscovite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mixed mineralsME
Dig Maine Gems
Dig Maine Gems is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Mixed minerals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Drainage Ditch On The South Side Of Dudley Road, 70 M West Of End Of Turner Rd.
Fossil collection site in the Pyle Mountain Argillite, Maine. Environment: deep subtidal indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Edgecomb Quarry
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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AgateME
Gleason Cover
Gleason Cover is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Harvard Quarry Maine
Maine pegmatite belt quarries near Hebron and Oxford produced gem-quality tourmaline and beryl for over a century.
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Havey
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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Havey Tourmaline Quarry
Havey Tourmaline Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Mixed minerals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
View detailsAlbiteME
Hedgehog Hill Quarry
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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Jasper Beach
Jasper Beach is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Red Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Locality 1099l, Tweedy Road, On Presque Isle Stream, Presque Township
Fossil collection site in the Chapman Sandstone, Aroostook County, Maine. Environment: delta front. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Lord Hill Mineral
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.
View detailsAnglesiteME
Lubec Lead Mine
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
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 Pegmatite
Mount Mica near Paris is America's first gem pegmatite mine, producing tourmaline and beryl since the 1820s.
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Peabody Mtn. Quarry
Peabody Mtn. Quarry is a historic mining site in Oxford, Maine, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Feldspar, Gemstones, Mica.
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Perry
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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Perry, Me
Fossil collection site, Maine. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Pertica Quadrifaria
Pertica quadrifaria is a documented rockhounding destination in ME. 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.
View detailsBerylME
Pingree Prospect
Pingree Prospect is a mineral prospect in Oxford, Maine, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Beryl, Feldspar.
View detailsActinoliteME
Pitts Garnet Mine
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)
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
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.
View detailsGraniteME
Quincy Granite Quarries
Coastal Maine granite quarries near Sullivan and the Mount Desert Island region expose pegmatite dikes with tourmaline and garnet.
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Quoddy Head Ligthouse
Quoddy head ligthouse is a documented rockhounding destination in ME. 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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Ragged Jack Mountain
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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Sabattus Mountain Occurrence
Sabattus Mountain Occurrence is a known mineral occurrence in Oxford, Maine, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Beryl, Bismuth.
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Scribner Ledge Quarry & Crocker Hill Mines
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
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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Sodalite From Litchfield
Sodalite from Litchfield is a documented rockhounding destination in ME. 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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Sorrento
Fossil collection site, Maine. Environment: coastal indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Swift River
Swift River is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Gold, Garnet, Magnetite, Scheelite, Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Tourmaline
Tourmaline is a documented rockhounding destination in ME. Collectors visit for gem crystals, beryl, tourmaline and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Waisamen Pit
Waisamen Pit is a historic mining site in Oxford, Maine, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Feldspar.
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Warren Nickel Prospect
Warren Nickel Prospect is a documented mineral occurrence near ME. Reported specimens include Pyrrhotite, Chalcopyrite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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