Gemstones in Your Backyard! | Amethyst, Opal, Garnet, and more!

Have you looked at your backyard and wondered what Gemstones could be hiding under all that dirt? Luckily for you Robert is here to help! We will give you the breakdown of what stones you could expect and some quick tips and points to help you start your gem hunting adventure! So grab a shovel, bucket, and sifter and it's time to discover the gems within your own backyard!

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[joejank]

It's also worth noting that if you're in an area that has a history of glacier activity, you can find a whole host of minerals that were brought in from further north. I've found non-native feldspar moonstone in northern Indiana that probably made its way down from Canada.

[christinaloveday]

I’m in Australia, and I’ve found so much in my backyard! Chalcedony, rose Quartz, galena, small geodes and jaspers! I’m so amazed I can fossick in my backyard thanks to imported gravel 😂 I’ve found heaps in car parks too, where the ground is being worn away rapidly. I look everywhere now, even if I know it’s not a known area for gems. There are always so many things to find!

[sarahpatterson]

I found a rockhounds collection that got dumped down a creek that ran along the side of our old house, I found lots of iron and copper, quartz, fluorite, petrified wood in multiple different varieties some had turned to agate, some had become opal, Some with a beautiful druzy pitch, Crystallize Ruby, different types of obsidian, large Garnet clusters, and a bunch of other stuff I have yet to identify.

[Shoobadawoop]

I live in Arizona. I've found Apache Tears (obsidian), LOTS of chalcedony and some really nice pieces of quartz including quartz points. None of them were found in my backyard though. This makes me want to dig around in the yard at my new place 😁

[lazybunny]

Im in the uk but when I was a kid my Dad was digging a pond out in the back garden and we found a real amethyst geode. He cracked it and it started the obsession for me. Never found any since though! The Uk is tough for finding things

[narwhal]

I found geodes in my yard in the high country of AZ. However, I think it was material for landscaping. Big but short quartz crystals.

[GothAtheist]

I'm in Montana, and ngl, we have almost an unbelievable amount of stuff. Another thing to note is that something might be available in your area but not be a big thing. For example, Montana has diamonds, yet no one mines them, and there are like 5 different sapphire mines instead. I figure there's a reason, but it doesn't stop people from still finding diamonds here.

[gajusm]

My country is super boring on the side of minerals apart from amber, though it does have alot of history with glaciers from scandinavia so that gives me a little more hope to keep looking for stuff.

[theeT.I.F]

Here in So. Cal I've found what I 'think' are tiny red garnets in a white stone, and a chunk of pink chalcedony in my own backyard, but I really want to drive a few hours to San Diego soon to dig for Kunzite!

[rachael]

In Maine you can find garnet, lopidalite, amethyst, tourmaline, fluorite, apatite and the list goes on. There is so much garnet here that some lakes have pink sand beaches. While there is a lot of pigmatite, a retired couple from Newery Maine digging in their own back yard, found a deposit of Lithium worth over a billion dollars! My husband and I just bought a house on 5 acres of land just outside Newery. We will be digging soon!

[Sheepdog]

the Eastern states are full of gem stones - here in NH we have garnet, beryl, tourmaline and loads of others...and I have a HUGE problem with people trespassing on private property to hack away

[JwaaToh]

In Oregon we found a mega loud of what seems to a be a odd mix of opal, jasper and very little bits of agate all formed together some how. But the place it was found isn’t known for finding opal so that was super cool and also opened my eyes that rocks of any kind can honestly be anywhere on this planet even in places it thought not to be but has the right geological conditions for it to form just no one’s found it yet like in my sit. Not saying we are the first people to find any type of opal in turner Oregon but again it’s a place no listed or even seeked out for finding opal.

[-e]

is there a webpage, where you can find what gems you can find all over the world? like depending on history documentation and minerals present in the area??

[islao]

One time I found a huge deep purple amethyst cluster, probably could have sold it for easily over 100 bucks, but I definitely want to keep it

[barbaraeidinger]

Brooklyn NY is the western end of the terminal moraine that makes up Long Island, so all I expect to find are glacier rounded stones scraped off of Vt., NH, Mass, and Conn. The cemetery nearby used the small rounded stones to line their drainage ditches alongside their roads. Our sand/ dust is mostly ground up granite, so gemstones must be harder to wear well here.

[ZaDussault]

Would also be nice to have that kind of video for other countries!

[thekak]

New York's state gem is garnet, and I've heard you can find garner sitting in the river bed of the delaware.

[MrQuadragon]

Why does the picture of obsidian at 3:14 show a picture of onyx(agate)?

[alkemyfrost]

cool! i wouldn't mind finding lots of quartz, though i doubt i'll find anything as I don't have a spot to dig and all lol. i always heard MN was the place to find agates, I hadn't heard of the rest, neat.

[cullcastle]

Probably one of my favs so far! Although, CA is a big state, wish Nor vs So Cal was specified! After all, it IS the entire length of both Arizona and Nevada...