The Diamond Hill Quartz Prospect in Abbeville County is an excellent site to collect a variety of quartz minerals to include amethyst, skeletal quartz, phantom quartz, smoky quartz, pseudomorphs (encrustation pseudomorphs, quartz after calcite), cacoxenite and a variety of other microminerals.

Amethyst Crystal Cluster, Diamond Hill Mine

The mine is owned by Chester Karwoski and his wife Gail, you will need to contact them to set a date to visit the mine. You will need to fill out a liability release form before visiting the mine.

The fee is $15.00 per day per person.

For children under 12 years old, the fee is $6.00 per day. Persons older than 64 years of age who do not dig at Diamond Hill, only surface collect etc., the fee is $6.00 per day.

4.75" Amethyst Crystal, Diamond Hill Quartz Prospect

As Featured In Rock & Gem Magazine
May, 2006 Issue

Also featured in Rocks and Minerals Magazine
January-February 2009 Issue

Giant Amethyst Cluster in South Carolina Museum!
(Read about our giant amethyst dug during our April 2008
machine dig which was aquired by the South Carolina Museum)

Museum Specimens For Sale

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