Smart Search Beta

New Today (1 August 2026) — be the first to try!

The latest Smart search has been updated to improve the range of your search questions to show more interesting and in-depth results.

This includes wider geographical searching and in-depth chemistry and specimens with mineral associations. All varieties/species should appear under generic searches, eg Garnet.

You can now also search by what a specimen is, not just what it is called — radioactive, fluorescent, pseudomorph, meteorite, fossil, type locality and more.

Just type your own search into the main search box at the top of any page — Smart search does the rest. If your search results are empty you have the option to save the search and be notified when matching items are listed.

Or try one of these:

Click here to find some more questions and info

Still in beta — the regular keyword search works as before.