
The Best Places To Mine For Gems Near You (Recommendations For Every State)
It doesn’t matter if you’re a novice or an experienced prospector, finding a gem … Read more


“It really does hit every mark where every other field guide I've tried has missed, which is really that it gets straight to assisting in identification (like a field guide should). It's honestly the most practical field guide I've used so far.”

“There are so many things we like about this guide. First of all, it's simple enough that even children can use. It isn't filled with complicated text on how rocks are formed. Kids don't want to read a lot of information when they're out in the field. They just want to know how to identify the rocks and with this field guide the rocks are easily identified.”

“I can confidently say I now look at every driveway, hiking trail, and random pebble like it might secretly be worth $10,000 or contain ancient knowledge. What started as ‘just a quick guide’ turned into me crouching dramatically in parking lots like I'm on a nature documentary mission.”

It doesn’t matter if you’re a novice or an experienced prospector, finding a gem … Read more
Every speck of gold in Ohio rode here on a glacier, hundreds of miles … Read more
Glaciers hauled gold down from Canada and packed it into Michigan river gravel, and … Read more
Long before California, Virginia ranked third in the nation for gold production. Yes, you … Read more
A Civil War soldier washing skillets in a stream near Great Falls kicked off … Read more
Every speck of gold in Missouri arrived by glacier. Yes, you can still find … Read more
Gold in Mississippi starts with a buried volcano. When geologists pulled drill core from … Read more
Gold in Iowa pulled about 3,000 prospectors into one Hardin County river valley in … Read more
Gold in West Virginia turns up in a place almost nobody thinks to look, … Read more
Gold in Maine turns up in enough streams that the state wrote its own … Read more
Gold in Washington built a mining town called Liberty around a single creek, and … Read more