Where to Find Chalcedony in Minnesota
Minnesota has 5 mapped collecting spots that report chalcedony, spread across 4 counties. The largest share sits in Crow Wing County with 2 spots. 5 of the spots are on land mapped as publicly accessible.
Every chalcedony spot we track in Minnesota
Best spotElySaint Louis County, MinnesotaPublic access · Jasper, Quartz, Chalcedony
Best spotRochesterOlmsted County, MinnesotaPublic access · Lake Superior Agate, Chalcedony, Fossil
Portsmouth MineCrow Wing County, MinnesotaPublic access · Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper +3
OsseoHennepin County, MinnesotaPublic access · Lake Superior Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper
Standout chalcedony spots in Minnesota
Hand-picked from the full list above, with the reason each one earns a trip.
Rochester
Olmsted County
The Rochester area combines two southeastern Minnesota draws: Lake Superior agate scattered through the glacial and river gravels, and Ordovician marine fossils weathering out of the region's roughly 450-million-year-old limestone and shale.
Ely
Saint Louis County
The bedrock around Ely belongs to the Archean Ely Greenstone, some of the oldest rock in Minnesota at roughly 2.7 billion years, and its iron formations and quartz veins yield jasper, quartz, and chalcedony.
Best counties for chalcedony in Minnesota
Ranked by the number of mapped chalcedony spots. County links open the full rockhounding page for that county.
- Crow Wing County2 spots
- Hennepin County1 spot
- Olmsted County1 spot
- Saint Louis County1 spot
Before you go
Read the chalcedony identification guide so you know what a keeper looks like in the field: Chalcedony in the encyclopedia.
