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US State Gemstones, Minerals, Rocks and Stones

State

Gem or Gemstones

Mineral

Rock or Stone

Alabama Star Blue Quartz Hematite Marble
Alaska Jade Gold  
Arizona Turquoise Fire Agate Petrified Wood
Arkansas Diamond Quartz Crystal Bauxite
California Benitoite Native Gold Serpentine
Colorado Aquamarine Rhodochrosite  
Connecticut   Garnet  
Delaware   Sillimanite  
Florida Moonstone   Agatized Coral
Georgia Quartz Staurolite  
Hawaii Black Coral    
Idaho Star Garnet    
Illinois   Fluorite  
Indiana     Limestone
Iowa     Geode
Kansas      
Kentucky Fortification Agate w/ red, black and yellow banding Coal  
Louisiana Agate   Petrified Palm
Maine Tourmaline    
Maryland Patuxent River Stone    
Massachusetts Rhodonite Babingtonite Roxbury Pudding Stone (Jasper)
Michigan Chlorastrolite (aka greenstone aka Isle Royal Green Stone)   Petoskey Stone
Minnesota Lake Superior Agate    
Mississippi     Petrified Wood
Missouri   Galena (Lead) Mozarkite
Montana Yogo Sapphire and Agate    
Nebraska Blue Agate   Prairie Agate
Nevada Nevada Turquoise or Virgin Valley Black Fire Opal Silver Sandstone
New Hampshire Smokey Quartz Beryl Conway Granite
New Jersey      
New Mexico Turquoise    
New York Garnet, Black Button Tourmaline, Moonstone Hematite  
N Carolina Emerald   Granite/Unakite
N Dakota     Teredo Wood
Ohio Ohio Flint    
Oklahoma     Barite Rose
Oregon Sunstone (heliolite)   Thunderegg
Pennsylvania     Trilobite
Rhode Island   Bowenite Cumberlandite
S Carolina Amethyst   Blue Granite
S Dakota Fairburn Agate Rose Quartz  
Tennessee Tennessee Pearl   Agate, Tennessee Limestone
Texas Topaz   Petrified Palmwood
Utah Topaz   Coal
Vermont   Talc & Grossular Garnet Granite, Marble, Slate
Virginia     Chesapecten jeffersonius (Fossil)
Washington Petrified Wood    
West Virginia Lithostrotionella    
Wisconsin Ruby Galena Red Granite
Wyoming Jade    
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