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Public Rock places to get collection of rocks, rockhound grounds 🪨
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items Where You Can Collect
BLM Lands: Generally allows collecting rocks, minerals, and gemstones for personal use (up to 25 lbs/day + 1 piece, 250 lbs/year limit in some areas).
National Forests (USFS): Permits often required but usually free for small...
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I have been here twice and it’s the best after a good rain. You can haul a five gallon bucket 🪣 worth of rocks out for the price of admission.
It’s definitely fun to do with children whom are just happy to play in dirt and take rocks home with the...
Crater of Diamonds State Park
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Paul "GeodeKid" Calburn opened a mine by cutting through the black volcanic glass bed to open an access to the thunderegg bed.
The thundereggs are found connected to each other with narrow rhyolitic chains like trains that has to be broken in order...
Dwarves Earth Treasures: Thundereggs from Black Agate Mine,
Wiley Well district, California
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The Hauser Geode Beds in Imperial County, California, are a popular rockhounding and hiking area in the Mojave Desert, known for geode hunting, with collecting permitted on BLM land.
Visitors need a high-clearance 4x4 vehicle for the rocky trails, ...
Hauser Geode Beds (2026) - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (w/ Reviews)
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On the way to the site, rockhounds frequently locate nice pieces of brown jasper, red jasper (including some with thin but attractive seams of black agate), and cream-and-orange colored picture sandstone, all of which usually is found as float. Some...
North Black Hill Geode Beds California
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PDF of 🪨 helpful information about them
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Pecos diamonds-quartz and dolomite crystals from the Seven Rivers
Formation outcrops of southeastern New Mexico
James L. Albright and Virgil W. Lueth
New Mexico Geology, v. 25, n. 3 pp. 63-74...
[PDF] Pecos diamonds-quartz and dolomite crystals from the ...
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Where to Find Rocks | Pecos Valley 💎
Pecos diamonds are small, colorful, doubly terminated quartz crystals found in the Permian Seven Rivers Formation along the Pecos River Valley in southeastern New Mexico, particularly near Roswell.
These cryst...
Pecos Valley Diamonds: the Desert is Paved with Diamonds
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BLM’s regulations (43 CFR 8365.1-5(b)(2)) generally allow members of the public to collect reasonable amounts of nonrenewable resources such as rocks, mineral specimens, and semiprecious gemstones for noncommercial purposes on BLM-managed public land...
Rockhounding on Public Lands | Bureau of Land Management
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The guide to finding where rocks are and what type of rock once you find them.
Where to Find Rocks | Field Guide Reviews and Mineral Collecting Maps!
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This is for people whom like the rocks to be found without going outside to looking for. A great place to find lots of rocks. 🪨
The Enchanted Rock Garden | Minnesota's Largest Shop for rocks
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Great place to find opals.
https://www.nevadaopal.com/
THE OPALS
Opals from Virgin Valley are primarily specimen only. They are casts after wood and can appear as limbs twigs or even pinecones.
The colors of opal from Virgin Valley can vary wide...
Rainbow Ridge Opal Mine
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Love this place. Rocks everywhere. A review on Google Maps :
Wow.
Obsidian wildlands.
I couldn't believe my eyes.
The desert country is beautiful, so much space.
Plenty of hiking and walking and obsidian to explore. This place is easy to fin...
Dig your own obsidian (legally!) - Glass Buttes, Oregon
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The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest authorizes recreational mineral collecting, such as panning for gold or rock collecting without the need for a permit
Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
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Wisconsin is one of the best states in the entire United States for rockhounding, both for its large variety of gem-quality minerals and wide distribution of potential rockhounding locations.
Due to its history of glacial activity and its proximity...
Wisconsin Rockhounding Location Guide & Map
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This map shows where to find various gemstones and other precious minerals within the state of Wisconsin
ArcGIS
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Plenty of them by Mount Ida quartz capital of the world in the brochures found at rest area with coupons in them for items if you’re in the area.
Crystal mines in Arkansas. A comprehensive list and guide ...