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~ Rock Collecting Sites - Free and Fee ~
Last Updated:
June 13, 2008
BOOKMARKS:
Fee Sites in US
| Fee Sites in Canada | Free
sites in US Including BLM Lands |
Australian Sites | Collectors
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US Fee Dig
Sites
ARIZONA
- Apache Powder Plant: Selenite Roses, Banded
Rhyolite
- Hull Mine: Calcite, Fluorite
ARKANSAS
CALIFORNIA
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Fossil Sites: Mollusks, Ammonites, Trilobites,
trees, leaves
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High Desert Gem and Minerals:
Oregon Sunstones (red labradorite)
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Himalaya Tourmaline Mine:
Tourmaline, quartz, apatite, Morganite, Cleavelandite,
calcite, Lepidolite, feldspar, Stibiotantalite, topaz,
and spessartine garnet.
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Oceanview Mine:
Pegmatite minerals including; Tourmaline in pink, green,
bi-colored and Black Smoky quartz crystals, Garnets,
Book Mica, Cleavelandite, Kunzite, Morganite, Goshenite
(water clear-beryl), Purple Lepidolite, Muscovite Mica,
Aquamarine
GEORGIA
IDAHO
MAINE
MONTANA
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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Ruggles Mine:
Mica,
quartz, feldspar, beryl, mica, amethyst, rose and smoky
quartz, garnet, gummite, autunite
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
NORTH CAROLINA
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Emerald Hollow Mine:
Emerald, aquamarine, sapphire, garnet, ruby, topaz,
amethyst, citrine, rutile, tourmaline, smoky quartz,
quartz
OREGON
PENNSYLVANIA
UTAH
WYOMING
CANADA FEE DIG SITES
US
FREE DIG SITES INCLUDING BLM LANDS
Note: these may require registration or a permit. Always
check with local authorities before entering land and
collecting. A wide variety of rocks, minerals, and
semi-precious gemstones are available for collecting on the
million acres of lands managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management (BLM). Most BLM lands are open to rock
collecting, and some areas have been specifically set aside
for this purpose. There are collecting restrictions, and a
BLM permit may be needed depending on the amount of material
you collect, how you collect it, where or when you collect,
and whether or not it is used commercially.
ARIZONA: agates, fire
agates, jasper, onyx and Apache tears, quartz, selenite,
petrified wood
ARKANSAS
CALIFORNIA
COLORADO: Semi-precious
gemstones, petrified wood, and common invertebrate and plant
fossils
OREGON
UTAH
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Black Rock Desert: Obsidian
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Capitol Reef National Park Area: Agate, chert,
jasper, petrified wood
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Dugway Geode Beds: Geodes
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Marysvale: Bixbyite, rutile, amethyst
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Rock Corral Canyon: Smoky Quartz, feldspar crystals
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Topaz Mountain: Topaz, beryl, amethyst, garnet,
pseudobrookite, bixbyite, opal, and hematite
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Vernon Hills: Wonderstone
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Tooele County:
Gypsum Sand,
Oolites
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Manti-La Sal National Forest: Birdseye marble (limestone)
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Mount Nebo: Banded calcite ("Mt. Nebo onyx")
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Sunstone Knoll: Sunstones (transparent, yellowish labradorite)
AUSTRALIAN COLLECTING SITES
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New South Wales: Malachite, Azurite & Quartz
Crystals
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Victoria: Aragonite, Fossil Shells and Sharks Teeth,
Gold
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Queensland: Petrified Wood, Jasper, Agate, Garnets,
Sapphires, Topaz, Smoky Quartz
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South Australia: Gypsum, Jasper, Fossils & Opal
COLLECTORS CODE OF ETHICS
Where ever you collect, make
sure you follow the rock collectors code of ethics:
- Respect both private and public property, and do no
collecting on privately owned land without the owner's
permission.
- Keep informed of all laws, rules, and regulations
governing collecting on public lands, and observe them.
- Research, locate, and observe the boundary lines of
property on which you plan to collect.
- Stay out of old mines.
- Use no firearms or blasting materials in collecting
areas.
- Cause no willful damage to property of any kind -
fences, buildings, signs, etc.
- Leave all gates as found.
- Find out if there are any fire restrictions in
effect. Build fires only in designated or safe places,
and make sure that they are completely extinguished
before leaving the area.
- Discard no burning material - matches, cigarettes,
etc.
- Fill in any holes that you have dug.
- Do non contaminate wells, creeks, or other water
supplies.
- Cause no willful damage to collecting material, and
take home only what you can reasonably use.
- Leave all collecting areas free of litter,
regardless of how you found them.
- Cooperate with field trip leaders and those
designated in authority in all collecting areas.
- Report to proper authorities any deposit of material
on public lands which should be protected for the
enjoyment of future generations.
- Appreciate and protect our heritage of natural
resources
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