Guided Tours

All digging and safety equipment will be provided by your tour guide. No minimum number of people required and all tours are fully insured. Tours are available from when the snow melts until when the snow falls. Your tour guide uses his experience and knowledge and will dig for you for the day not for himself. We either own or have written permission to collect on all these locations so when you choose Rob Davis and Kamloops Rockworx, sit back, enjoy, learn and discover the geologic treasures of Kamloops and area.

Group Rates Available

McAbee Fossil Beds

The McAbee fossil beds are located just west of Kamloops and offer a unique opportunity to travel back in time to a 50.2 million year old lake bottom teeming with fossils of all description. Various Eocene Age plants, fish and insects are easily found and can be identified one of your tour guides or the claim owner, the resident expert. This location is accessible to all members of the family.

April 1 - October 30

Savona Mountain

This beautiful area just west of Kamloops offers many sites to collect rocks as well as enjoy the scenery. Five staked claims provide the traveller a place to collect banded and moss agates, opals of green, yellow pink, blue and banded brown and geodes of various sizes, all some of the world's best volcanic silicates. Your guide and claim owner will identify your finds. All sites can be visited in one day and are accessible to all members of the family

May 15 - October 30

Scenic Gold Panning

Rob Davis will personally guide you to one of Kamloops' many scenic gold bearing creeks. Once you arrive you will be given instruction in traditional methods of gold panning and a history of the importance of gold in the development of Kamloops. All safety gear and equipment will be supplied.

Back Valley

30 minutes west of Kamloops, visitors will be amazed at the ease of collecting at these sites. Agates can be found in all sizes and colours including the elusive sagenite agate. Visitors will also find large crystal masses of aragonite that resembles pink tourmaline. Opal in many colours and quartz crystals can also be found at here. This coupled with incredible views, an experienced tour guide and a dry campsite will make for a pleasant trip for all visitors.

May 1 - October 30

McGilvray Quartz Crystals

Tours to this beautiful part of the Interior can expect to find quartz crystals in all forms and sizes from jewelry points to massive crystals. This trip takes you into an abandoned quartz quarry that was mined in the 1950s for decorative stone. Very easy access and collecting for the whole family under the watchful eye of an experienced guide will guarantee you will find that elusive BC quartz crystal or cluster.

June 1 - October 30

North side of Kamloops Lake

A long-time rockhounding site on the shores of Kamloops Lake makes this outing an incredible adventure for the whole family to hunt agates, geodes, ferriarite, calcite, quartz and amethyst. All of these treasures are easily found on our claim and the beach and with the many forms of driftwood make this one of the best tour packages.

April 1 - October 30

Monte Lake

Come and search for the truly unique Monte Lake eye agate as well as moss agate, datolite, amethyst, geodes, druzy quartz, prehnite, stilbite, pink chabazite, quartz and various other forms of zeolite. All sites in the area can be visited in one day and are accessible to the whole family.

April 1 - October 30

Deadman Valley

This very scenic valley just west of Kamloops offers many opportuities to collect agates, fossil wood and jasper. Many different colours of fossil wood can be found as well as plant, insect and fish fossils. Your tour guide will take you though the geology and history of the valley and will provide all collecting and safety gear.

Robbin's Creek - Barnhartvale

Collect the infamous Thompson Blue Agate and plum and banded agates as well as jasper, opal and geodes. All these locations are very easy collecting and your tour guide and claim owner will provide all the collecting equipment and safety equipment if needed. A very scenic and educational tour for the whole family.

Birthday Party & Special Event Tours

Give them a truly memorable and educational experience out in the beautiful Kamloops area that will guarantee to have your friends or relatives talking about their tour for a long time. Your tour guide will provide all the collecting equipment and any safety gear you may need. All of the sites on this webpage can be used for this tour package.