Amethyst Mine Lapland, Luosto

We rode in Pendolino through deep snow from a parking lot to the mine. A guide told us very interesting (!) stories about the mineral, the mine and also related myths. After we digged up amethysts from the mine's surface, we returned in Pendolino the same way.

After joyful walk in the national park full of amazing autumn colors you arrive to the nice tiny caffe where you may get some hot drink before going to hunt your treasure. Your guide tells you a cool (also literally) story of the amethysts, the mine, Lapland and Earth. And then amethyst rush begins! You get your equipment and go digging. You have a good chance to find real treasure in the real field conditions and keep it. 😋 There is also a tiny store for lazy visitors. We really enjoyed the time.

Chance to dig for amethyst yourself. Very informative guide

Great visit An excellent talk by a knowledgeable and informative guide made the walk in on quite a miserable day well worth it (our visit was in early June). My wife particularly enjoyed searching for her own Amethyst which you are allowed to keep. An added bonus is the lovely cafe which served very tasty coffee and doughnuts!

This is first class fraud, after some explanation about the stones you can start digging yourself on a 10m x 20m field that has been dig over by thousands of tourists before, also on the structure of the layer wen you dig deeper like 40cm you find out that there are bigger rocks without any soil inbetween them, so you most probably are searching in so called "tailings" from the mine itself. To compensate for not finding anything under the ground yourself staff shows you where to find them. Why did they tell you this..because they put the amethists there, small stones on the surface and near the entrance of the field. They throw some small stones for tourists to find..that is first class fraud..i feel screwed.