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Indiana is mostly sedimentary rock brought by ancient seas and glaciers. This is great for fossils, but not great for rocks and minerals. During the past 2 million years, two major glacial advances...

North Dakota has lots of oil, gas, sand, coal and other natural resources. North Dakota is in the U.S. region known as the Great Plains. Eastern North Dakota lies in the level bed of the ancient...

Florida is not really known for good cutting or lapidary material. But Florida does have some cool rocks and minerals. Primarily Florida is covered with sedimentary rocks: limestone or calcite and...

Pennsylvania is not rich in rocks and minerals, and not very great for rockhounding.  There are very limited public lands, and much of it is hunting grounds. Pennsylvania does not have an...

The Black Hills, South Dakota is one of the top 5 places in the U.S. for rocks and minerals. In addition to agate and rose quartz, there are more than 40 other minerals found here: including copper,...

There are rocks and minerals to be found in Iowa, but the variety is low. Iowa is mostly rolling prairie land deposited by glacial activity over sedimentary rock. In the northeast corner, where...

Colorado, like most western states, has produced gold, copper, and silver. Gold was discovered in 1859 and the most productive gold mine in Colorado, the Cresson Mine, produced more than 258,000...

Oklahoma has only a limited variety of rocks and minerals, mostly agate and petrified wood. However, Oklahoma is rich in commodity minerals throughout the state. These natural minerals, which...

Arkansas is a great 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...

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