Product Information

This is our Benitoite Mine Gravel Pack #5

In this pack you get 5 pounds of raw ore gravel that was mined by us directly at the mine. This gravel has not been searched in anyway. We dug it, sifted it once to remove most of the lose dirt and giant rock and then filled our buckets.

The ore gravel is mostly covered in dirt and is randomly scooped into each gravel pack, so we have no way of knowing what might be in each bag.

Please see our How To page, for proper ways to search for Benitoite.

I can tell you that we dug for ourselves at the same area we took this gravel from. After washing what we had dug up, we came home with some unbelievable specimens and stones.

Even if we cannot say exactly what you might find, we do take every effort to make sure that you will find something. We do not add or remove material from the packs, but we do blacklight every pack as it is filled, first to make sure that you are not surprised by finding any scorpions, and secondly to make sure that we are seeing fluorescence.

At present there is only 1 other person selling Benitoite gravel bags on the internet and he's getting $40 per pound, and that is not even for mine dug gravel, it is for a down stream Placer Claim. Here you are getting 5 pounds of gravel dug directly from the mine site for about $60. If you know benitoite, then you know 1 nice specimen or one small gem quality crystal can easily pay for the cost of this bag and then some!

Benitoite specimens start in the $50 range and go into the thousands! Average prices for specimens are in the hundreds of dollars. Gem quality stones over a carat in size, once cut start at $2500 per carat and go up rapidly from there!   

If you are interested in a larger quantity purchase of mine gravel, please send us an email. We can accommodate large quantity purchases while our supply lasts.