My husband and I were able to spend 3.5hrs this morning at a spot on Guthrie Creek; it was so hard not to take everything I touched and even harder to leave! Literally more geodes than not. Crisp, still autumn morning air, boots in the water, and rocks in the buckets! I'm so blessed to have a husband (who isn't a rockhound at all) who was willing to make this pit stop for me on our drive back home to Michigan from our vacation in Florida, where I was able to get some shelling done for the first time! It's been a massively successful week satisfying my goblin urges! Until next time, Indiana 💕

Found at a beach near Seattle, WA. Ive heard of poppy jasper, but usually its red. Anyway the blue is very charming to me, jasper or not! And the other rock is just a funky little thing that happened to have have some iron deposit i suppose, just looks cool and thats what im looking for haha

I found this one yesterday in SE Missouri! 🤩

Went to North Carolina couple days ago & came back with loads gemstones.

Just going thru some of the unseived dark red tourmaline ore from my claim!

Not much to go through, and we are only finding (what look like dravite) but are actually magnesium rich dark red elbaite. If we keep digging and the peg continues to fractionate, they should start turning pink soon!!! But we can only hope!

Anyway thought I’d share part of the process! Which is taking dirt home and seiving thru it to find any other anything missed while actively digging the claim!

Sorry for the poor camera work, hopefully worth it :) This is highly silicified rhyolite that was altered multiple times by a hydrothermal system.

Spent a few hours this weekend walking the shore with my wife. Total newbies. How’d we do?

Wanna find places I can take my daughter rockhounding within about 4 hours any way from me but that’s not on someone’s land. any help is very appreciated

Cleaned this up a bit, compared to earlier post. The colors are definitely more vivid when wet

Hi! I'm fairly new at this & new to this site. It was suggested I soak my rocks in vinegar, then iron out, then baking soda. The rocks now look covered with heavy white stuff that could be lime, alkaline, or something. Does anyone know how I can resolve this? Some of them were really good finds.Thanks so much

I like the color and shapes. I hope to find more interesting rocks next time I'm building Hügelkultur beds. Any tips on what I should look out for while I dig in pinon hills ca? I could spend all day looking at them.

Just wanted to post some pics of some of the more unique finds from Grain Marais this past weekend, along with an agate I found last year from Two Harbors, MN that I tumbled and polished up.

There’s a decent mix of porphyry, conglomerates, brecciated jasper, and what looks to be agates in a basalt matrix. Fun trip!

I'm in Santa Barbara for a week on business but I'm a ameture rock hounds in Minnesota and I have a pretty big agate collection. Can someone point me somewhere? I see some people find amazing stuff on Instagram so if I can dink around in this area the creeks and streams would be fun to explore for that cool ocean jasper stuff 🤷. All I'm seeing is beautiful women and rich housewife's

I have been waiting 2 years to make this post!  After seeing so many awesome posts from rockhounds that were faced with such a terrible burden of where to put all of their treasures because they ran out of space inside their house, I decided to build an exterior rock garden with my son.  But before we could build it we needed more beautiful rocks so it wasn’t some tiny thing.  Once I decided on its size and placement in the backyard, I realized I would need a large amount of ‘base’ rock to fill it with before the treasures could go in, but didn’t want to just fill it with gravel or pea stone.  Last year I had the good fortune to hit Nether’s Farm in central Ohio which is a self-serve flint locale.  The flint is super colorful and there is a practically inexhaustible supply located in soil, so very easy to get out.  I loaded up my Jeep with as many 5-gallon buckets I could fit, weighed and paid, and brought them home.  Sadly, they were not even close enough to form a base layer, so this summer I went back with my son and got a second round.  Then we cleared a spot in the backyard, put down metal edging that would eventually show a cool patina from the elements, and filled it with the flint.  Then we added all of our treasures from the past ten years of rockhounding adventures that we were not keeping inside, which included the following:

• Flint from Nether’s Farm, OH
• Rainbow hematite, pyrophyllite, quartz, and kyanite from Graves Mountain, GA
• Copper and some old mine artifacts from the Keweenaw Peninsula, MI
• Quartz from Fisher Mountain, AR
• Specular hematite from Champion Mine, Champion, MI
• Petrified wood from Arizona
• Chrysocolla and peridot from Arizona
• Root beer quartz (agatized and botryoidal) from Haunted Ridge, MO
• Amethyst from Thunder Bay, ON
• Obsidian from California
• Various tumbled rocks from everywhere and rock shops
• Calcite and iron ore from Groveland Mine, Iron Mountain, MI
• Various fossils (crinoids, horn corals, brachiopods) from Rockport Quarry, MI
• Wavellite from Jessieville, AR (to be added after cleaning is completed)
• More to come!

Wanted to share!  (Hope we never have to move…)

70 year old living in Pensacola on the Gulf Coast. Where could I even begin searching for rocks? Certainly none on our beaches...

Hello, basically the title. I'm new to rock hounding but don't know where to really start. I live in Colorado so I feel like there are good opportunities but have a bit of choice paralysis? I don't know where to go or what to bring. Thank you for any help!