West Coast Mining owns the Polka Dot Agate Mine. It is near Madras, Oregon and they are open to visits! If you would like to experience digging at an actual mine site you can visit the Polka Do ...
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 p ...
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: my quartz category is for quartz, rose qu ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Agates - (Page) Agates are members of the chalcedony family. Chalcedony (kal SED' nee) is any form of microcrystalline quartz, where the crystals are too small to be seen without high magnification. However, ...