Arizona minerals are the backbone of the Arizona Experience. Arizona Mineral Education provides links to mineral museums, photo galleries, and education outreach programs. It is a resource for educators, students, and the Arizona public.

Of Earth’s more than 4000 naturally occurring minerals, 76 were first discovered in Arizona. A partial list includes: andersonite, bisbeeite, coesite, fairbankite, flagstaffite, jeromite, navajoite, ransomite, wickenburgite, and yavapaiite.

But Arizona is best known for its eye-catching, world-class examples of copper-bearing minerals - azurite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, cuprite, malachite, native copper, and turquoise, to name a few -- harvested from porphyry copper deposits from Bisbee to Jerome. But there is more to Arizona minerals than copper. There’s olivine –peridot - (Gila County), rhodocrosite (Cochise County), vanadinite (La Paz County) and wulfenite (Yuma County). And we are just scratching the surface of the 809 minerals found throughout Arizona.