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 ...
North Carolina Rock and Minerals - (Page)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, ...
Arkansas Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Arkansas is a prime state for rockhounding because of its abundance of quartz crystals. In fact, quartz was named the Arkansas state mineral in 1967. Southern and eastern Arkansas is sandy river de ...
Maine Rocks and Minerals - (Page)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 ...
Arizona Rocks and Minerals - (Page) Arizona is rich in rock and minerals. But even better-it is the home to the world's largest Gem and Mineral Show! Every year for 2-3 weeks, around the first of February, rock and mineral dea ...
Texas Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Texas produces a large variety of gemstones, rocks, minerals and fossils. Sandy sediments typical of the coastal plain make up southeastern Texas. Behind this lies the Llano uplift of central Texas ...
Virginia Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Virginia though small, produces a wide variety of rocks, minerals, fossils and metals. Drowned valleys along the coastal plain of Virginia form long bays and, in the southeast, swamps such as the Gr ...
Metaphysical Defintion and Healing Crystals - (Page)Metaphysical Meanings on Rocks, Crystals and Minerals What is metaphysics? Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular ...
Montana Rocks and Minerals - (Page) Montana is The Treasure State, fitting for its rocks and minerals. Montana Agate is probably the most well known rock from Montana! Montana Agate comes from near the Yellowstone River in Mon ...
Idaho Rocks and Minerals - (Page)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 ...
Origin of Rock Names - (Page)Origin of Names for Rocks and Minerals How do rocks and minerals get their names? The Rock and Mineral names can be traced quite often to Greek and to Latin. It is common practice to add an "ite" ...
State Gemstones, Rocks, Fossils and Minerals - (Page)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 ...