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- Driven miles out of your way to pan for gold?
- Spent hours sifting through sand and gravel looking for fossilized trilobites?
- Taken a family vacation to Crater of Diamonds State Park?
Then use this section to share your best vacation and travel tips that lead to great opportunities for hunting for treasure--of any kind. Follow the simple guide below to add your travel tips to this page--or post your information and vacation stories in a comment > Where's your Favorite Treasure Hunting Vacation?
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Crater of Diamonds State Park What you can hunt for: diamonds (natch)Phone/website: (870) 285-3113 / www.craterofdiamondsstatepark.com Nearest city or town: Murfreesboro, Ark. Chances of finding anything?: Low, but it's fun. Read the Honeymoon Diamond Story  Freshly Tilled Diamond Field | Rocky Candy Mine What you can hunt for: Crystals of Fluorite, Barite, and quartz geodesPhone/website: (250) 442 2833 / www.rockcandymine.com Nearest city or town: Grand Forks, BC Canada Chances of finding anything?: 100% of visitors find pretty fluorite pieces, they are all over, you just hammer them out with the hammers provided. Most people find the small quartz geodes, you have to be lucky to find barite.  Heaven for a Crystal Collector! |
Crystal Kid Prospect What you can hunt for: Quartz & pyrite crystals, peacock ore and other copper minerals, on a family-friendly adventure.Phone/website: www.geologyadventures.com Nearest city or town: Seattle, WA Chances of finding anything: You'll find dozens of pretty crystals in a 4 hour trip.  | Mason's Ruby and Sapphire Mine What you can hunt for: Mostly sapphires in the lavender to pink color range, but rubies and other stones may also be found. Phone/website: http://www.masonsrubyandsapphiremine.com/ Nearest city or town: Franklin, N.C. Chances of finding anything?: They (at least they used to) guarantee a sapphire find if you stay all day. It is not salted, so you won't find as much as with the Franklin mines that are salted, but there are beautiful sapphires to be found here and you will likely come away with some nice finds. This is the only Franklin area mine that I know of that allows you to go into the mine itself to dig.  |
Richardson's Rock Ranch What you can hunt for: Thunder Eggs, JasperPhone/website: www.richardsonrockranch.com Nearest city or town: Madras, OR Chances of finding anything?: 100%  Campgrounds | U-Dig Fossils What you can hunt for: TrilobitesPhone/website: www.u-digfossils.com Nearest city or town: Delta, Utah Chances of finding anything?: 100% I love this place!  |
StoneRose Fossil Center What you can hunt for: Eocene plant, insect, & fish fossils Phone/website: www.stonerosefossils.org Nearest city or town: Republic, WA Chances of finding anything?: Very good, fossils, particularly plants, are abundant. The center allows visitors to keep 3 fossils per day, if you discover more, they are donated to the centers non-profit programs. A low-cost family destination. StoneRose Fossil site wiki page Stonerose Eocene Fossil site album #1 Stonerose Eocene Fossil site album #2  | Saddle Mountain What you can hunt for: Petrified WoodPhone/website: N/A Nearest city or town: Mattawa, Wa Chances of finding anything?:100% Good digging and surface hunting in tailings  |
Opal Hill Mine What you can hunt for: Fire agate Phone/website: www.wiitaminingandexploration.com Nearest city or town: Blythe, CA Chances of finding anything?: 100%, this site is a winter site ONLY. We are already over 110 degrees For lots more vacation ideas check out this blog. www.myoutdoorchannel.com/cswiita Wiki Profile cswiita  | The Middle Camp Mining district What you can hunt for: GOLD Phone/website: www.wiitaminingandexploration.com Nearest city or town: Blythe, CA Chances of finding anything?: 100 % |
Jalama Beach What you can hunt for: Rootbeer agate, fossils Phone/website: www.jalamabeachstore.com Nearest city or town: Lompoc Chances of finding anything?:100% | Cherokee Ruby Mine What you can hunt for: Rubies, sapphires, garnet, rutile, moonstone, and more. Phone/website: http://www.cherokeerubymine.com/ Nearest city or town: Franklin, N.C. Chances of finding anything?: Very good. The staff is just wonderful and will provide plenty of help in your search. Because this mine is completely native and unlike most other Franklin mines, NEVER salted, you won't find as much as with the salted places, but what you find may be of very high quality.  |
Gem Mountain What you can hunt for: Beautiful Montana Sapphire Phone/website: 406*859*4367 www.gymmtn.com Nearest city or town: Phillipsburg,Mt Chances of finding anything?: Very good to ExcellentA great adventure for anyone,great environment,easily accessible for all, available facilities, camping available. Travelling Interstate #90, exit at exit #153 heading South on Staste Hwy #1 to just beyond Phillipsburg. Take paved road #38 West to Gem Mtn. | Crystal Park What you can hunt for: Brilliant Amethyst & Smoky Quartz crystals which can be found in the normal form as well as scepters, Dbl terminated & Japanese Law Twin forms. Phone/website: Info @ USFS 406*683*3900 Nearest city or town: Polaris,Mt Chances of finding anything?: Very Good to Excellent Depending on weather conditions Open from 5/15-10/15 |
Emerald Creek What you can hunt for: Star GarnetsPhone/website: Nearest city or town: Chances of finding anything?:Virtually guaranteed!  | Name of Destination: national petrified Forest What you can hunt for: Phone/website: Nearest city or town: Chances of finding anything?: Album |
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| heidianna | Where's your favorite treasure hunting vacation spot? (page: 1 2) | 22 | Nov 9 2008, 8:24 PM EST by TallTomSr | ||
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| Tondalayo | Hi new to this site | 2 | Sep 26 2009, 12:55 PM EDT by aubreyreynolds9@gmai | ||
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I am going to leave Illinois in October to go to Florida and I was wondering if anyone can tell me places we could hunt on this trip. We just love to hunt for rocks and fossils so if you know of a place please let us know. I Illiois we have not found too much but we look all the tme. We went to the Geode Hunt in Keokuk Iowa and loved it. If you know of any places please write. dast245@aol.com
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| AdventureGuide | Got Plans for next summer? | 2 | Sep 2 2009, 11:18 PM EDT by AdventureGuide | ||
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Howdy fellow treasure huntin' buddies! These days ya gotta plan way ahead to take one of those "special" gem hunting field trips so that's exactly what we're up to.
Summer 2010 plan to come prospecting with us! We're in the process of putting together field trips to hunt for Gold, Diamonds, and Emeralds! Our gold prospecting field trips usually include famous historic areas in Colorado's South Park and Wyoming's Centennial Ridge. BUT.... in addition to this, next summer we invite you all to come to British Columbia to work our two mine claims on the Fraser River between Lillooet and Layton. We'll stay at the Cayoosh Creek Campground and RV Park then take the jet boat down the river to the claim. Learn to pan and sluce, get to know the subtle art of extracting fine gold and flakes. Prolly more importantly you'll learn where to dig and why there. Gold is where you find it, we found some and you may too! There's lots of placer gold on our claims to shine in the bottom of your pan. Naturally you keep all the gold and gems you find... O did I mention that we've also found Jade, Serpintine, Agates and (man was I surprised) Sapphires! For our next incredable rockhounding adventure we're adding a helicopter expedition to our Emerald Mine near Revelstoke... right now we're thinking floor tents and 3 days... anybody curious? Please help, we'd love to have your take on all this, comments? Diamond Prospector Dan and I have considered trying to have a couple of field trips to the State Line district to hunt for Diamonds this next summer... millions of the little gems just laying in the creek bottoms out there! REALLY!! Anybody wanna help work out the details? Hey custom gem tour... on the cheap 2010 We're thinking camp out style for this next summer as the Guest Ranch and Hot Springs Resort accommodations kinda priced everyone out of the '09 tours. Wadda you guys think?
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| AdventureGuide | Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Colorado Gold Rush! | 0 | Apr 11 2009, 12:08 PM EDT by AdventureGuide | ||
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Come to the high country and enjoy a week long celebration of the Colorado's 1859 "Pikes Peak or Bust" Gold Rush! For the special discount rate of only $1859 ($500 less than a regular old dude ranch week) Rocky Mountain Tourism is offering 3, week long, all inclusive Gold Panning / history tours this summer!
http://www.learngoldprospecting.com/index.cfm?var_file=tours/gold-tours2009.htm Wonderful accommodations, http://www.ColoradoRanchResort.com all the expected resort amenities, excelent high country meals, and best of all we'll teach you everything you need to know to get started prospecting for GOLD! Everyone will get a one year membership in the GPAA, (Gold Prospectors Association of America), this allows you access to prospect and camp on the gold claims held in 41 states and provinces when you go home! Lectures and demonstrations right on the Fairplay Placer where 202,000 ounces of colorado gold have been produced. We have the last 17 acres of undisturbed placer ground to explore and learn from! Come play in the Park this summer, South Park the Buckle of the Colorado Gold Belt. Enjoy open range horseback riding on our 3500 acre ranch, or take a jeep tour and explore the ghost towns, I'll tell you some of the colorful stories that have given the history and heritage of Colorado Gold Rush it's unique high country flavor. Book your Colorado Gold Rush Tour right away! Only three tours will be offered: June 7-13, July 12-18, and August 9-15. Make those reservations NOW! SPACE IS LIMITED O heck I forgot to mention the most important part... YOU KEEP ALL THE GOLD YOU FIND! GIVE ME A CALL! 303-997-4133
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