Nearest Localities
This tool can help you search for nearby mineral localities. Please note thatif you are running from a device without GPS (eg a normal computer or laptop) the'Get my current location' option may either not work at all or give wildly inaccurate results.
Please remember the 'Get my current location' option will, on a suitable device,transmit your current location to us, unencrypted, over the internet. We do nor permanently store such information but do not use if you areuncomfortable with this.
Enter latitude and longitude in decimal degree format, eg 51.04378. You may post both latitude and longiute (separated by a comma) into a single box and it will split automatically.
Listings here do NOT guarantee access or mineral collecting rights are permitted. Always check permission with landowners
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To cite: Ralph, J., Von Bargen, D., Martynov, P., Zhang, J., Que, X., Prabhu, A., Morrison, S. M., Li, W., Chen, W., & Ma, X. (2025). Mindat.org: The open access mineralogy database to accelerate data-intensive geoscience research. American Mineralogist, 110(6), 833–844.
doi:10.2138/am-2024-9486.
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