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Dust Devil Mine (Spectrum) Sunstone, OR

Gem locality Source-confirmed findsPermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: red sunstone, green sunstone, bicolor, schiller.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: high-grade red and green schiller Oregon sunstone in basalt host

Long-operating commercial fee-dig sunstone mine near Plush, documented on mindat and in guides.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Remote desert, heat, digging in tailings

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