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Limb cast are arguably some of the most beautiful “Petrified Wood” around.  But what is a limb cast? Limb cast begin the same way that Petrified Wood does, trees are buried quickly u ...

Belief in the spiritual healing properties of rocks and crystals goes back beyond recorded history. You can read more about the actual use of rocks in minerals in ancient times for medicinal ...

Connecticut is small and the variety of rocks found there is small. But Connecticut still offers great rockhounding. A central lowland valley divides eastern and western Connecticut. This valley is ...

There are about 5000 identified mineral names, with new ones being added every year, but only about 130 of them are considered "gemstone" minerals.  "Gemstones" itself is a subjective term ...

West Virginia is, of course, famous for its coal, but not so much for its rocks and minerals. The western two-thirds of West Virginia is a rough area of hills and valleys cut in sedimentary rocks an ...

Massachusetts, though small, has great rocks and minerals found there. Massachusetts is divided into two geological provinces by the Connecticut River. East of the river, the land falls, with a few ...

Sedimentary rocks containing coal, salt, and fossils are under Kansas. The surface is sand and gravel from the erosion of the Rocky Mountains and carried eastward by water. These deposits created th ...

North Carolina is a great for rockhounding, because of its many Pay for Dig sites. The eastern half, covering about 45% of North Carolina, is the low-lying coastal plain extending to the fall line, ...

Maine is an excellent state for rock and mineral collecting! The northern part of Maine is hilly and often swampy, the southern part is rolling uplands broken by hills, isolated mountains and valley ...

Tennessee has more mineral resources than any other state east of the Mississippi, except North Carolina. Limestone and dolomite, bituminous coal, lead, zinc, ball clay, sand and gravel, phosphate, ...

Idaho is a great state for rockhounding.  In fact Idaho's nickname is 'The Gem State’. It even has a county known as Gem County. The state also is home to an incredible variety of geolo ...

Does my state have a official state gemstone, rock, mineral, or fossil?   Alabama designated Hematite as the state mineral in 1967, Hematite as the state rock in 1969, and Star Blue Quartz as ...