Gem and mineral sites

Where the good stone actually comes out of the ground, worldwide.

• Ace of Diamonds Mine, Middleville New York
• Afghan emerald of the Panjshir Afghanistan
• Afghan lapis lazuli (Sar-e-Sang) Afghanistan
• Afton Canyon, the Mojave California
• Agatized coral, the state stone Florida
• Alaska jade (the Kobuk) Alaska
• Algerian Hoggar & the Saharan meteorites Algeria
• Alpine crystal, the Gotthard Switzerland
• Ardennes slate & Belgian bluestone Belgium
• Argentine rhodochrosite, the Inca Rose Argentina
• Artigas amethyst Uruguay
• Australian black opal & the outback gems Australia
• Baltic amber Russia
• Bancroft, the mineral capital of Canada Ontario
• Bangladeshi Sylhet & the river stone Bangladesh
• Bay of Fundy amethyst New Brunswick
• Belarusian potash and the Salihorsk mountains Belarus
• Benitoite Gem Mine California
• Big Obsidian Flow Oregon
• Binntal, the Swiss mineral valley Switzerland
• Black Hills rose quartz South Dakota
• Bonanza Creek, the Klondike Yukon
• Bone Valley, the phosphate country Florida
• Bou Azzer & the Anti-Atlas Morocco
• Brazilian Minas Gerais gems Brazil
• British Columbia jade British Columbia
• Bumpus Quarry Maine
• Burmese jade & ruby (Mogok) Myanmar
• Cairngorm smoky quartz United Kingdom
• Carrara marble Italy
• Cerrillos turquoise New Mexico
• Cerro Rico, the mountain that eats men Bolivia
• Chanthaburi, the gem city Thailand
• Chiapas amber Mexico
• Chilean lapis lazuli Chile
• Chinese Hetian jade China
• Cobalt, the silver in the streets Ontario
• Colombian emerald (Muzo) Colombia
• Connemara marble Ireland
• Coober Pedy opal Australia
• Copper Country datolite Michigan
• Cowee Valley rubies, Franklin North Carolina
• Crater of Diamonds Arkansas
• Crow Creek Mine Alaska
• Crystal Grove Diamond Mine, St. Johnsville New York
• Cumberlandite, Iron Mine Hill Rhode Island
• Danish Faxe and the fossil sea Denmark
• Danish amber, the Jutland coast Denmark
• Deer Hill amethyst New Hampshire
• Delaware sillimanite Delaware
• Devil’s Lake and the Baraboo quartzite Wisconsin
• Diamond Acres, Fonda New York
• Diamond Hill Mine South Carolina
• Dugway geodes Utah
• Eagle Rock and Congleton Hollow Oregon
• Ellensburg Blue agate Washington
• Emerald Creek star garnets Idaho
• Emerald Hollow Mine, Hiddenite North Carolina
• Eonyang amethyst South Korea
• Eritrean Bisha and the Red Sea gold Eritrea
• Erzgebirge silver & the Freiberg mines Czechia
• Eskisehir meerschaum Turkey
• Estonian oil shale Estonia
• Estremoz marble Portugal
• Fairburn agate South Dakota
• Fengtian nephrite & Taiwan jade Taiwan
• Fire agate, Round Mountain Arizona
• Flint Ridge Ohio
• French Creek mines, Chester County Pennsylvania
• Ganesh Himal crystal Nepal
• Glass Butte obsidian Oregon
• Gore Mountain garnet, the Barton mine New York
• Graves Mountain, Georgia Georgia
• Guyanese diamonds of the Mazaruni Guyana
• Hallstatt, the oldest salt mine Austria
• Hampton Butte green petrified wood Oregon
• Hardin County fluorite Illinois
• Hatcher Pass & Independence Mine Alaska
• Herkimer Diamond Mines New York
• Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande California
• Hpakant jadeite Myanmar
• Hull-Rust-Mahoning and the Mesabi Minnesota
• Iceland spar, Helgustadir Iceland
• Idrija mercury mine Slovenia
• Ilakaka sapphire Madagascar
• Ilímaussaq & tugtupite Greenland
• Isle Royale greenstone (chlorastrolite) Michigan
• Ivalojoki gold Finland
• Jade Cove, Big Sur California
• Kagem, the emerald mine Zambia
• Katlang pink topaz Pakistan
• Kawah Ijen sulphur Indonesia
• Kawah Ijen, the blue fire sulfur mine Indonesia
• Kemi chrome mine Finland
• Keokuk geodes Iowa
• Keweenaw native copper (Delaware Mine) Michigan
• Khao Ploi Waen and the Siam ruby Thailand
• Kildonan gold (Baile an Or) United Kingdom
• Kongsberg silver Norway
• Kremnica gold Slovakia
• Lake Magadi soda Kenya
• Lake Superior agates Minnesota
• Larimar, the Barahona blue Dominican Republic
• Latvian amber, the Kurzeme shore Latvia
• Lemmenjoki Lapland gold Finland
• Lightning Ridge black opal Australia
• Lucky Strike thunderegg mine Oregon
• Luumaki gem beryl Finland
• Madan, the Rhodope minerals Greece
• Mahd adh Dhahab, the Cradle of Gold Saudi Arabia
• Maury Mountains moss agate Oregon
• Meetiyagoda moonstone Sri Lanka
• Merelani’s neighbour: Tanzanian ruby & the Umba Tanzania
• Mexican fire opal Mexico
• Mibladen & Midelt Morocco
• Mine Hill, Roxbury Connecticut
• Mineral Point lead and zinc Wisconsin
• Moat Mountain smoky quartz New Hampshire
• Moldovan Cricova stone & the Codru Moldova
• Montana sapphires, Gem Mountain Montana
• Morefield Mine, Amelia Virginia
• Mount Antero aquamarine Colorado
• Mount Apatite, Maine Maine
• Mount Ida quartz Arkansas
• Mount Mica, Maine Maine
• Mount Pentelicus marble Greece
• Nebraska blue agate & prairie agate Nebraska
• New Zealand pounamu (greenstone) New Zealand
• Nishapur turquoise Turkmenistan
• Nome beach gold Alaska
• Norwegian thulite & larvikite Norway
• Number 8 & the Lynn district Nevada
• Ojuela / Mapimí minerals Mexico
• Oklahoma rose rock Oklahoma
• Ouro Preto, imperial topaz Brazil
• Outokumpu copper Finland
• Pailin sapphire & ruby Cambodia
• Pala pegmatite district California
• Palanga amber Lithuania
• Panama Rocks New York
• Panasqueira Portugal
• Panna diamonds India
• Papakōlea Green Sand Beach Hawaii
• Peridot Mesa Arizona
• Petoskey stones Michigan
• Plainfield rhodonite Massachusetts
• Put-in-Bay celestite (Crystal Cave) Ohio
• Richardson’s Rock Ranch Oregon
• Rock City Park, Olean New York
• Rock of Ages, Barre Vermont
• Rose Road quartz, St. Lawrence County New York
• Royston turquoise district Nevada
• Ruggles Mine, New Hampshire New Hampshire
• Sandawana emeralds Zimbabwe
• Scottish agates United Kingdom
• Serbian Bor and the Timok minerals Serbia
• Shigar Valley pegmatites Pakistan
• Soldiers Delight, the chromium barrens Maryland
• Southern Indiana geodes Indiana
• Spanish Rio Tinto Spain
• Spectrolite, Ylamaa Finland
• Spencer Opal Mine Idaho
• Spruce Pine district North Carolina
• Sri Lankan sapphire (Ratnapura) Sri Lanka
• Sterling Hill & Franklin, New Jersey New Jersey
• Swedish Kiruna iron Sweden
• Tanzanite (Merelani) Tanzania
• Taroko marble Taiwan
• Taxco silver Mexico
• Telkibanya & Hungarian gold Hungary
• The Alabama Gold Belt Alabama
• The Cariboo & Fraser gold British Columbia
• The Dead Sea minerals Jordan
• The Fairbanks gold district Alaska
• The Gran Sabana diamonds Venezuela
• The Great Salt Plains selenite Oklahoma
• The Harding Pegmatite New Mexico
• The Jos Plateau tin Nigeria
• The Lebanese fossil fish Lebanon
• The Llano Uplift, Texas topaz country Texas
• The Mir diamond pit, Yakutia Russia
• The Mississippi Petrified Forest Mississippi
• The Missouri Lead Belt (galena) Missouri
• The Nova Scotia gold belt Nova Scotia
• The Ore Mountains silver, Freiberg Czechia
• The Palermo Mine New Hampshire
• The Tenere and the Sahara’s bones Niger
• The Thunder Bay amethyst Ontario
• The Ural emeralds & gems Russia
• The chalk fossil country Mississippi
• Thomsonite Beach Minnesota
• Topaz Mountain Utah
• Topaz of the Pikes Peak batholith Colorado
• Tsavorite, the Tsavo garnet Kenya
• Tsumeb Namibia
• Turquoise Mountain, Halloran Springs California
• Uruguayan agate & the Salto geodes Uruguay
• Venice Beach shark teeth Florida
• Virgin Valley opal fields Nevada
• Volyn topaz & beryl Ukraine
• Wadi Faynan copper Jordan
• Walker Valley geodes Washington
• Wanlockhead & Leadhills gold United Kingdom
• Welo opal Ethiopia
• Whistler Springs thundereggs Oregon
• Wicklow gold Ireland
• Wieliczka salt mine Poland
• Wiley Well & the Hauser Geode Beds California
• Winterswijk quarry Netherlands
• Wood’s Chrome Mine, the State Line district Pennsylvania
• Wyoming jade Wyoming
• Yogo Gulch sapphires Montana
• Yooperlite Michigan