West Coast Mining owns the Polka Dot Agate Mine. The Polka Dot Agate Mine is near Madras, Oregon and they are open to visits! If you would like to experience digging at an actual mine site you can vi ...
Connecticut Rocks and Minerals - (Page)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 ...
Birthstones by Month and Zodiac Stones - (Page)What are the Birthstones and Zodiac Stones, and what do they mean? Just when the Zodiac Signs were declared is unclear. Some form of zodiac use preceded the Babylonians, though it was the ...
Alaska Rocks and Minerals - (Page)For obvious reasons rockhounding is much harder in Alaska! Much of the ground is frozen or hard to get to. But Alaska does have lots of rocks and minerals including agates, jaspers, and ...
Other Lapidary Rocks - (Page) In order to manage what could become a huge type of gemstone list-I've tried to sort my rock and mineral information in obvious categories: agates, jaspers, my quartz category is fo ...
Georgia Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Georgia has rocks of almost every geological period exposed. So, it is not surprising that Georgia has a large variety of rocks and minerals. The southern half of the state is part of the coas ...
New Mexico Rocks and Minerals - (Page)New Mexico is one of the richest states for finding rocks and minerals. Varieties of agate, jasper, chert, or petrified wood are found in 15 of New Mexico's 32 counties. The New Mexico state gems ...
Mississippi Rock and Minerals - (Page)Mississippi does not have many rock and mineral resources. Much of Mississippi is built of sand, gravel, and mud brought down by the Mississippi River and which has filled a great bay in the Gulf Co ...
Tiger Iron - (Page)Tiger Iron consists of Red Jasper, Hematite, and Tiger eye. It is a great example of a metamorphosed gemstone: More than 2 billion years ago, deposits of these three materials were slowly mashed t ...
Blue Lace Agate - (Page)Blue Lace Agate is a beautiful cryptocrystalline quartz stone or a member of the chalcedony family. Generally only solid colored materials are actually named "chalcedony". Most ...
Washington Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Washington's Petrified Woods are some of the finest in the nation. The Petrified Woods not only represent a broad range of colors and patterns, but also represent a wide range of identifiable spec ...
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 ...