Hand holding a purple geode in a green garden - FotoHelin/Shutterstock This guide highlights accessible, legal locations where enthusiasts can safely hunt for geodes and geode-like formations and take ...

Lovely day for a bit of rockhounding. Found agates, geodes, and the mild realization that we’re holding something older than civilization. Not bad for a river we nearly ignored.

“As a young kid, we used to go to the Mississippi over there and go fishing,” Mike Shumate recalled. “There’s always geodes laying on the bank of the river. You’d break them open and say, ‘Oh that’s ...

Geodes tend to be more rounded than the rocks surrounding them. They are also harder, because the minerals within make geodes harder than the rock they are encased in. Geodes are usually spheroidal, ...