Rockhounding Utah


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Rockhounding Utah
	Utah is an excellent destination for rock hounding. The state's diverse terrain is home to numerous varieties of rare rocks, gemstones and fossils. Although there are law regulating rockhounding Utah, most of our public land is open and rocks can be collected freely by public. In general, a person may collect reasonable amounts of gemstones and rocks from public lands for recreational purpose or personal use. If the stones are collected for commercial purpose, a permission must be obtained from the BLM. Although unique and interesting rocks are avaialble throughout the state, there are several areas of Utah that attracts rockhounders from all across the world. Rockhounding Utah is famous sports in Utah as well as an it also serves an important commercial purpose.

Some of the major rockhounding Utah areas are:

Millard County: the important sites of rockhounding in this county are, Wheeler Amphitheater or Antelope Springs, Ibex-Fossil mountain area and Sunstone Knoll. Antelope Springs is a worldfamous location for the collection of trilibite fossil. Ibex-Fossil Moutnain Areais famous for echinoderms, cephalopods. The SunStone Knoll is famous for Sunstone, aragonite.
Juab County: the important sites of this county are Dugway Geode Beds, Topaz Mountain area. As the name suggests the Topaz area is famous for topaz and Dugway Geodes is famous for Geodes.
Tooele County: the significant area of this county is Stansbury Island. This region is famous for gypsum and oolitic sand.
Wayne County: caineville area is a significant area of this county. The region is famous for agate, jasper, chert and oysters.