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Southeast, Arkansas

Wegner Quartz Crystal Mines, Mount Ida AR

Crystal locality Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Shark teethShark teeth

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Why this spot

A large family fee operation in the Ouachita quartz belt near Mount Ida, offering tailings hunts and a dig in the working pit.

Commercial fee-dig locality.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Working dig site
follow the operator's rulesWatch footing and sun.

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