Where to Find Fluorite in North Carolina
North Carolina has 5 mapped collecting spots that report fluorite, spread across 5 counties. 4 of the spots are on land mapped as publicly accessible.
Spot list checked against source data on April 1, 2026.
Every fluorite spot we track in North Carolina
Best spotBurnsvilleYancey County, North CarolinaPublic access · Albite, Amazonite, Apatite +13
Best spotIsland CreekVance County, North CarolinaPublic access · Apatite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite +7
Elijah Mountain Gem MineHenderson County, North CarolinaPublic access · Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald +15
Gardner QuarryHarnett County, North CarolinaPermission required · Fluorite, Chalcopyrite, Calcite +4
Brown MountainBurke County, North CarolinaPublic access · Albite, Fluorite, Gold +1
Standout fluorite spots in North Carolina
Hand-picked from the full list above, with the reason each one earns a trip.
Island Creek
Vance County
Island Creek represents the Hamme tungsten district, where NCGS work identifies hubnerite-bearing veins with quartz, sericite, fluorite, and scheelite at the Tungsten Queen mine.
Burnsville
Yancey County
Ray Mine gives North Carolina a rare free public pegmatite locality, with Mindat documenting aquamarine, beryl, amazonite, muscovite, rutile, tourmaline, and other Spruce Pine district minerals.
Best counties for fluorite in North Carolina
Ranked by the number of mapped fluorite spots. County links open the full rockhounding page for that county.
- Burke County1 spot
- Harnett County1 spot
- Henderson County1 spot
- Vance County1 spot
- Yancey County1 spot
Before you go
Read the fluorite identification guide so you know what a keeper looks like in the field: Fluorite in the encyclopedia.
