Fire Agate Information, Research and Lapidary Links
Following are links to some of our favorite fire agate related web pages, social media sites, and other good gemstone and mineral related websites. Please check these out for fire agate rockhounding locations, fire agate carving tips, mineralogical data, and some great gemstones and carving related social media communities.
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You will find us occasionally on Facebook and we frequent several Facebook Groups. Please feel free to join these wonderful fire agate Facebook discussions groups:
Fire Agate Free For All: Want to show off your fire agate gemstones and wonderful fire agate rough specimens? Want to discuss Opal vs. Fire Agate? Want to find out what may have created fire agates? Or just other fire agate collectors for some fun fire agate related chit-chat, then please join the Fire Agate Free For All group.
Fire Agate Fan Group: If you are new to fire agate carving, which is one of the toughest gemstones to carve, we encourage you to join the Facebook Fire Agate Fan group. Some of the worlds best fire agate carvers and collectors frequent this group and it is a great place to exchange information and share ideas regarding fire agates.
Read Leon Hughes publication called 'Prospecting For And Instructions On How To Finish Fire Agate Gems', which we proudly host since Leon's passing with permission from his estate. This interesting book contains a wealth of fire agate related information. Mr. Hughes owned the Deer Creek Fire Agate mine in the early 1970s and was very kind to put together this fire agate related resource for future generations.
Maricopa Mining is an Arizona gemstone mining company that specializes in Fire Agates, Peridot, Amethyst, Gold and other gemstones and minerals that are unique to the State of Arizona. It owns and operates multiple gemstone mines within the southwestern United States. It is a junior mining company that is primarily focused on the exploration, acquisition and developent of gemstone and mineral deposits in the southwestern US.
Fire Agate Mineral Locations: Visit our listings and description of many of the fire agate gemstone mineral locations with related links and photos. Several public fire agate rockhounding collection sites are also listed. You will find information on The Black Hills, Arizona, BLM Fire Agate Rockhound Area, Deer Creek, Arizona Fire Agate Deposit, the Oatman, Arizona, Cuesta Fire Agate Mine, Opal Hill, California, Fire Agate Mine, the Round Mountain, Arizona, BLM Fire Agate Rockhounding Site, Saddle Mountain, Arizona, Fire Agate Location, and information on the San Carlos Apache Slaughter Mountain, Arizona, Fire Agate deposit.
If you are a rock collector, then the website Rockhounding on Public Lands is a good resource page that is published by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Labd Management, that covers the aspects of rock collecting on public lands. It provides several State Rockhounding Guides as well as a listing of Public Rockhounding Areas. BLM’s regulations (43 CFR 8365.1-5(b)(2)) generally allow members of the public to collect reasonable amounts of nonrenewable resources such as rocks, mineral specimens, and semiprecious gemstones for noncommercial purposes on BLM-managed public lands. Noncommercial means that the collector is not selling the items for a business or financial gain.
Arizona Gemstones is an Arizona gemstone website that specializes in minerals, metals and gemstones that are found in the State of Arizona. These precious and semi-precious gemstones and minerals include peridot, turquoise, amethyst, garnets, fire agates, turquoise, azurite, chalcedony, vanadinite, wulfenite, petrified wood, calcite, chrysocolla, diamonds, fluorite, galena, gold, gypsum, malachite, molybdenite, pyrite, quartz, topaz, opal, copper, silver and other gemstones and minerals that are unique to the State of Arizona. This site is small at the present time, but will hopefully be expanding greatly in 2026 and the coming years.
Mindat Fire Agate Mineral Information: Mineralogy data related to fire agates. Mindat.org is one of the largest mineral database and mineralogy reference website on the internet. The site contains worldwide data on minerals, mineral collecting, mineral localities and other mineralogical information.
The-Vug.com: THE portal for everything mineral and rock related on the web! Started in 2002, The goal of The-Vug.com is to serve as THE web portal to the internet for people interested in Minerals, Fossils, Gemstones, Jewelry and the related mineralogical objects and information.
We have another Fire Agate related website that is dedicated to one of our favorite fire agate locations, please check out our Deer Creek Fire Agate Website.
Fire Agate US is the proud recipient of THE 2018 SPECTRUM AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CUSTOMER SERVICE from City Beat News!
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