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Fossil collection site in the Franconia, Wisconsin. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Use this page as your Wisconsin rockhounding map — Wisconsin has 79 rockhounding sites in our directory, including 5 quartz & crystals, 17 agate & jasper, 2 geodes, 10 gemstones, 13 fossils. Use rockhounding sites near me for live distance sorting or browse by city.
Near major cities: Madison
By specimen type: Quartz & Crystals (5) · Agate & Jasper (17) · Gemstones (10) · Fossils (13) · Gold & Minerals (5) · Other (27)
Our Wisconsin rockhounding map lists 79 cataloged sites with GPS, fees, and specimen types at /states/wisconsin/. Filter by type or use near-me GPS sorting from your location.
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Fossil collection site in the Franconia, Wisconsin. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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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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Annicon is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Copper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Area Near Jennings Falls trailhead is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Albite, Beryl, Columbite-Tantalite, Elbaite, Microcline, Muscovite, Triphylite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Ashland County is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Agate, Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Precambrian Baraboo quartzite forms dramatic bluffs at Devils Lake State Park with iron-stained bands and occasional geodes in regional streams.
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Bayfield County is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Agate, Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site in the Platteville, Wisconsin. Environment: carbonate indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Bend Deposit is a known mineral occurrence in Taylor, Wisconsin, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Gold, Malachite, Silver.
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Berlin & Utley is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Gem Rhyolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Big Falls Park is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Almandine, Cummingtonite, Hornblende, Plagioclase. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Black River & tributaries is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Agate, Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Blaisdell Lake is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Kyanite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Bluffs of Miss. River is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Lake Superior Agate, Jasper, Diamond, Fossils. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Boscobel is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Gem Pearls. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Btwn Spider Lake & Lost Land Lake is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Kyanite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site in the Racine Dolomite, Wisconsin. Environment: reef, buildup or bioherm. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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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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Cave of the Mounds is a documented rockhounding destination in WI. 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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Central Wood County is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Agate, Aventurine, Quartzite. 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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Cobb & Mifflin is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Azurite, Barite, Chalcopyrite, Cuprite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Devil's Lake is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Lake Superior Agate. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Diamond Bluff is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Diamond. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Dodgeville is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Barite, Calcite, Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite. 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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Durand is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Lake Superior Agate. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Eagle is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Diamond. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Estabrook Park is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Geodes, Millerite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site in the Racine, Waukesha County County, Wisconsin. Environment: reef, buildup or bioherm. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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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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Flambeau Copper Mine is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Many minerals, wide variety. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Galena is a documented rockhounding destination in WI. Collectors visit for assorted minerals, ore samples and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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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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General Area Quarries is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Crinoids, Trilobites. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Grant River beds is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Gem Pearls. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Gravels of Kettle Moraine is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Diamond. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Halder is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Epidote, Unakite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hazel Green is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Barite, Calcite, Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site, Dane County, Wisconsin. Environment: lacustrine - small. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Iron County is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Copper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Jackson Co. Iron Mine dumps is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Actinolite, Almandine, Andalusite, Biotite, Kyanite, Magnetite, Sillimanite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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La Crosse County is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Lake Superior Agate. 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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Little Falls Area is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Beryl. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mayville & Iron Ridge is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Limestone, Hematite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Menomonie is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Lake Superior Agate. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mercer is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Kyanite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site in the Racine, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Environment: offshore shelf. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Mineral Lake Cu-Ni Prospect is a known mineral occurrence in Ashland, Wisconsin, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Reported specimens include Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Malachite, Nickel.
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Mississippi River is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Gem Pearls. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site in the St. Lawrence, Dane County, Wisconsin. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Monroe is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Galena. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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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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Muscoda is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Agate. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Near Saxon Falls is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Calcite, Chlorite, Epidote, Laumontite, Prehnite, Thomsonite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Oshkosh is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Calcite, Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Fossils. 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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Outgamie County is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Gem Ruby, Gem Sapphire. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Owen is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Jasper. 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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Platteville is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Barite, Calcite, Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Plum Creek is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Diamond, Gold placer. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Precambrian granite outcrops of Vilas County display Wisconsin's distinctive red feldspar granite in forest road cuts.
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Prairie du Chien is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Agate. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site in the Racine, Wisconsin. Environment: reef, buildup or bioherm. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Racine, Wisconsin. Environment: reef, buildup or bioherm. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the St. Lawrence, Richland County, Wisconsin. Environment: marine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Red Granite is a documented rockhounding destination in WI. 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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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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Fossil collection site in the Schoolcraft, Wisconsin. Environment: open shallow subtidal. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Robinson Landing is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Kyanite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Sandy Beach & Mud Lakes is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Almandite, Kyanite, Staurolite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Saukville is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Diamond. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Sawyer County is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Agate, Jasper. 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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Fossil collection site in the Grand Detour, Rock County, Wisconsin. Environment: carbonate indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Southeast Wisconsin dolomite formations occasionally yield small quartz geodes in area creek exposures and construction cuts.
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Werley is a documented mineral occurrence near WI. Reported specimens include Barite, Dogtooth Calcite, Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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