Piedmont Gem Panning

Bauxite

Also found at:

• No other locations listed yet

Quartz Crystals

Clear, smoky, and rose quartz crystals are among the most common and rewarding rockhounding finds. Arkansas produces world-class quartz.

Also found at:

• Crater of Diamonds State Park
• Crystal Grove Diamond Mine
• Herkimer Diamond Mines

Agates

Banded chalcedony prized for their colors and patterns. Lake Superior agates, Fairburn agates, and Montana moss agates are especially famous.

Also found at:

• Rockhound State Park
• Black Rock Desert
• Thunder Egg Capital (Richardson's Ranch)

Horseshoe Mine

Clay County, Alabama · Fee Dig

Historic pegmatite mine in the Alabama Piedmont. Known for quartz crystals, garnet, and tourmaline specimens.

Golden Stake Mine

Lineville, Alabama · Fee Dig

Alabama Piedmont mine producing garnet and kyanite crystals. Part of the mineral-rich eastern Alabama region.

Alabama Gold Panning (Clear Creek)

Wedowee, Alabama · Public Land

Recreational gold panning in the Clear Creek area. Alabama's gold belt was historically productive. Pan in streams on public lands.

M & G Mine

Ashland, Alabama · Fee Dig

Old mine in Clay County producing apatite, garnet, and smoky quartz crystals. Located in the pegmatite-rich area near Ashland. Permission required.

Hog Mountain

Alexander City, Alabama · Fee Dig

Historic gold mining area NE of Alexander City in Tallapoosa County. Known for gold, pyrite, galena, and other sulfide minerals. Old mines and prospec...

Millsite Tin Mine

Rockford, Alabama · Fee Dig

Historic tin mine 1 mile NE of Rockford in Coosa County. Produces cassiterite, apatite, epidote, garnet, lepidolite, topaz, tourmaline, and sillimanit...