Where to Find Smoky Quartz in Maine
Maine has 8 mapped collecting spots that report smoky quartz, spread across 4 counties. The largest share sits in Oxford County with 4 spots. 6 of the spots are on land mapped as publicly accessible, and 1 is a fee-dig site.
Spot list checked against source data on April 1, 2026.
Every smoky quartz spot we track in Maine
Best spotEdgecomb Quarry (Schmid Preserve)Lincoln County, MainePublic access · Almandine Garnet, Beryl, Aquamarine +3- Best spotHarvard Quarry (Noyes Mountain)Oxford County, MainePublic access · Green Tourmaline, Schorl, Beryl +3
Best spotCatherine Mountain (Donnell Pond)Hancock County, MainePermission required · Molybdenite, Scheelite, Fluorapatite +2- Best spotLord Hill (White Mountain National Forest)Oxford County, MainePublic access · Topaz, Phenakite, Smoky Quartz +2
- Best spotTunk MountainHancock County, MainePublic access · Smoky Quartz, Feldspar, Hornblende +1
Bumpus QuarryOxford County, MainePublic access · Albite, Almandine Garnet, Autunite +11
Berry-Havey QuarryAndroscoggin County, MaineFee dig · Tourmaline, Watermelon Tourmaline, Beryl +7- Hedgehog Hill QuarryOxford County, MainePublic access · Albite, Almandine Garnet, Beryl +7
Standout smoky quartz spots in Maine
Hand-picked from the full list above, with the reason each one earns a trip.
Catherine Mountain (Donnell Pond)
Hancock County
Catherine Mountain holds a nineteenth-century molybdenite prospect where molybdenite occurs in granite pegmatite, rare vugs, and fractures, alongside reported scheelite and wolframite.
Tunk Mountain
Hancock County
Tunk Mountain is carved from the Tunk Lake pluton, a concentrically zoned alkali granite that grades into rapakivi granite, producing smoky quartz, perthitic feldspar, and dark hornblende-bearing rock.
Edgecomb Quarry (Schmid Preserve)
Lincoln County
The Edgecomb pegmatite pits sit inside the 766-acre Schmid Preserve, town land laced with more than seven miles of public trails, where 1880s feldspar and mica workings exposed almandine garnet, beryl, and aquamarine.
Harvard Quarry (Noyes Mountain)
Oxford County
The historic Harvard Quarry on Noyes Mountain produced the gem green tourmaline that gave the Harvard green color its name, and its dumps still yield schorl, beryl, smoky quartz, rose quartz, and purple apatite.
Lord Hill (White Mountain National Forest)
Oxford County
Lord Hill is a granite pegmatite in the White Mountain National Forest where more than 50 minerals have been recorded, most famously large white topaz and smoky quartz crystals encrusted with rare phenakite.
Best counties for smoky quartz in Maine
Ranked by the number of mapped smoky quartz spots. County links open the full rockhounding page for that county.
Before you go
Read the smoky quartz identification guide so you know what a keeper looks like in the field: Smoky Quartz in the encyclopedia.
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