The store is amazing! So many different types of rocks and crystals to choose from and the prices are very reasonable. The people who work there are very nice. Check out was easy and I was added to their rewards program. I look forward to going there again when I have more time to myself to shop. read more

Everyone is always so awesome - service is top tier ! Biggest selection here in ABQ if you ask me. Quality & Quantity- 10/10 Value for your dollar read more

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My daughter loves this place. So many cool rocks to see. Their new building is nice too. I would recommend going here if your kid likes rocks and fossils. read more

8/28/21: (Rewards Member): I love this place and you'll want to join the rewards club. Mama's Minerals is located across the street from Hotel Chaco and Sawmill Market, near Old Town and easy access to/from I-25 or I-40. Only tricky thing is parking because of the 2 businesses all utilizing the same parking lot. I'm usually here to purchase crystal healing items. But what can you find here other than happiness and a great customer service experience? Mama's has an extensive jewelry collection, beads and beading supplies, rocks, minerals, fossils and crystal gemstones. Walk in and spend time perusing their extensive collections. You just may love it too. Enjoy... read more

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The selection is fantastic! Books, Crystals, Beads, Jewelry & so much more. What a lovely store. Their prices are on point especially with their rewards. Service was helpful as well. Moving forward MM will be a frequent shopping place for me. read more

My wife loves the convenience and the value of one stop shopping. She loves handling of the various minerals. Instead of purchasing piecemeal she loves leaving with what she was looking for. Frustration is a poison that can be cured only when something beautiful is made by one's hands. Thank you for making my wife happy. read more

I liked the old location better but the new location is still very large. For me it can be a hit or miss in terms of them having a fossil I'd want. I just need to be at the right place at the right time for just the right pieces. But they have a huge inventory, a real plus. read more

Amazing amount of everything gem and mineral related. We spent an hour getting lost in it all. My niece selected an intact geode and the staff kindly sawed it open for her while we watched through the ship window. We knocked out a ton of stay home prizes for friends who are watching our pets this week. Highly knowledgeable staff answered all of our queries and the prices are truly great. read more

There are many places to purchase materials for beading and jewelry making. Do yourself a huge favor and start at the best. Excellent service and authentic product (not made in China). Buying the real thing might be slightly more expensive, but the end result is so much better. You will be so glad you stopped by. read more

I got a super cute pendant for my sister in law and she loves it. Ordered online and was able to pick it up the next day.

Knowing nothing abut minerals but wanting to select something for a family member. The sales clerk was helpful. The options plentiful. Can't really speak to the prices, but they appeared reasonable. The selection is incredible. read more

Always an inspiring time at Mama's Minerals. Geez why do I always want to touch everything! Santa come here for all my gifts, on second thought can I just live here w all these pretty rocks??? read more

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Loved this place! The most beautiful variety of crystals, fossils, stones and rocks. Very helpful staff. You can come in here and spend hours looking at all the different crystals....a fun place for kids too! read more

Make sure you have time to browse and wander! Lots of inspiration and interesting stuff while shopping. Now time to make the bracelet with the beads and stones I purchased. read more

Stopped by today, is a gem within a gem . Best mimeral, precious stones in town Graceful employees read more

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Without fail, we come here every ABQ trip. Even though its mostly the same products they offer, its always cool to see all these various formations, shiny or dull. I always love seeing the new, large displays that sell for over $4,000 typically. One day, my husband will go bankrupt for one of these magnificent fish fossils. Very clean and professional looking store. Rocks organized by rock types, some on glass displayes and some piped up in baskets. They have a lil nook in the store for all their himalayan lamps that are always really cool to sit and look at. If youre looking for rock tools, they got a great assortment too. If you need books, theres a whole selection they offer. Theres even a lil kiddie area to play in so you can go about the store while they play. It never disappoints to just walk into the store and look at their beautiful rock or fossil diaplays. Theres always something new and different from what you would find in most rock stores. The only problem is how some items tend to be overpriced so we typically never really buy anything. But luckily, if we do feel impulsive, military discount! read more

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Best Crystal store I've ever visited so far, friendly and very helpful staff! So many unique cuts of crystals, a variety of oils and interesting books. I love the reading corner they have with kids and adult books. If your looking for crystals, jewelry, oils or awesome gift sets I highly recommend checking this place out and they also have a loyalty program read more

Albuquerque's Mecca for gems & minerals! This staff is AWESOME, so knowledgeable, and there is SO MUCH under one roof. Beads, supplies, stones, equipment, kits, teaching aides, gifts...they hold classes, host birthday parties, and at least once a year they put on a free kid's day event that is an absolute blast for youth of all ages where they can participate in: Flint Knapping, Fossil Excavation, Gold Panning, Geode Cracking, Jewelry Making, face painting, and more!! You gotta check this place out folks!!! read more

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A friend and I recently went out to Mama's Minerals to see the ropes of beautiful gemstones. They have some really lovely things. Pricey, but I think they are worth what they are asking, as the quality is very good. This is a great place for the whole family to go, I think. Kids will enjoy the geode displays and anyone who likes to make jewelry will really enjoy their gemstones. It's a great place to shop in Old Town! Parking is very good there, too - which it isn't always in a tourist location. Check it out. read more

Great shop, nice selection of fossils, rocks and minerals. A must do for Albuquerque!) read more

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Beautiful pieces. My mother and I enjoyed wondering the aisles. Nice staff. Very helpful.

I used to like this place for jewelry supplies until they moved to the new location. I wanted to buy jump rings, which used to be sold by the bag for a couple of dollars but now are $1.75 a piece! This is a ridiculous price. They also used to have a better selection of beads. I'm thinking the prices are going up to pay for the beautiful building. Well needless to say I'm looking for another place to buy my jewelry making supplies. read more

Was here for the Balloon Fiesta and found that this place was really over priced for the quality of their inventory. There are other shops in the city that have better customer service, quality and prices. I did purchase a few things here and was a little irritated that they just threw them in a bag with no care. I didn't spend a crazy amount of money but I found that other shops in the area were much more careful with how they baggged my purchases. read more

I was here about 6 or 7 years ago, and found the prices reasonable and the quality of fossils and minerals pretty good. decided to drop by this trip and was disappointed. It is my opinion that there were few interesting and rare minerals, the quality of most were strictly average to poor. The variety and quantity of fossils was poor and, in some cases, ridiculously overpriced. For instance, I looked at the 20 or 30 megalodon teeth on display. They were about the worst specimens I've seen. I asked the price of a medium size, mediocre tooth, and was shocked to see it priced at $500. By comparison, a similar specimen on Ebay would cost probably less than $100. The few pieces of petrified wood were overpriced and poor specimens. It looks to me, in my opinion, what Mama's is doing is buying the poorest quality specimens at cheap prices and selling them for prices of high quality, Interesting specimens. A large proportion of what is for sale is the same stuff sold in truck stops and 'trinket' shops that are found along the highway. My opinion is that before you buy anything at Mama's, like a piece of petrified wood, fossil, or even piece of garden variety, polished mineral, you should check on Ebay for both quality and price. As I said, my negative comments are my opinions and are based on my recent visit to Mama's. read more

Outstanding. Never seen anything like this before. Vast collection of fossils, minerals, rocks, beads, crystals one could ever imagine. Super friendly and informative staff. Decent prices for some very unique minerals, discounts accepted from other vendors offers. Great ideas for gifts. Jewelry making supplies and all kinds of beads. You can spend hours here, just fascinating! read more

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It was a surprise to see Mama's Mineral's had moved. But it seemed to be a change for the better, since the new location has A LOT more space than the old one, which was feeling pretty cramped. The new location is also only a short walk from Old Town (the most touristy section of ABQ). As before, the selection is broad. Mama's carries supplies, equipment and beads for jewelry makers as well as fossil hunters. It carries stones and crystals in multiple configurations, some which appeal to novices; others that appeal to collectors. They even have mineral-based furniture and lamps. So basically, if you enjoy any of the items produced by nature's 4 billion year laboratory, Mama's is worth checking out. To be crystal clear, Mama's Minerals is a shop for nearly everyone: from the jaded, to the stoners, as well as those living a sedimentary lifestyle; from people who like classic rock, to those who take life for granite. And it's a gneiss place overall - No shist! read more

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Confession time, part I: growing up in the Mid-Atlantic, I didn't have a very close relationship to rocks. Gems were things we saw only on jewelry, and fossils ... well THEY belonged in a museum, not a place for purchase. Our landscapes were carpeted with leafy trees, wet and humid in most seasons, and rock strata were visible only on the interstate where roadcuts carved through the ancient Appalachian peaks long eroded into rounded, gently rising ridgelines. Confession time, part II: living now in northern California, I have more contact with rocks, gems, and minerals, but I tended to think about places that sold them as "crystal shops" located in places like Mt Shasta where all sorts of New Age and spiritual aids are part of the retail space real estate. So, when I visited Mama's Minerals, a short walk from the Hotel Albuquerque Old Town, I was surprised. Surprised to find fossilized crocodile skulls rather than sweetgrass incense. Surprised to see boxes and bins of uncut stones, gold panning equipment, metal detectors, geologist's hammers and chisels, and a full range of rock polishing machines. Sure, you still can find jewelry and beads and probably sticks of incense, too. But this is definitely a rock shop, not a crystal store. The points of overlap are primarily in the minerals for display, lots of amethyst, quartz, and hundreds of other precious and semi-precious stones in sizes that range for a few ounces to a couple of tons. Most impressive to the casual visitor are the high-end fossil displays, the ones that retail for $1000s or tens of $1000s, but there is almost no place your eyes can wander where you won't discover a beautifully cut gem, a glowing fluorescent surface, an ancient sea creature from the depths of geological time, or a rock of unusual hue and reflective color. Generally speaking, I prefer retail spaces that are uncluttered, with lots of negative space and a seasonal rotation of items for sale (a tough business model to make a profit, I admit). But at Mama's Minerals, the massive inventory of rocks, gems, fossils, beads, and rockhounding equipment seems to fill the space without making it look cramped or messy. Partly this is because the building is HUGE, almost of Target-esque proportion, with high ceilings and wide aisles. It feels like a museum and a gift shop combined into one. There are obviously people who come here who are experienced rockhounds or who are expertly educated in the world of fossils and gems. But you don't have to belong to these subcultures to enjoy a visit here. Maybe you'll leave with a piece of smoky quartz or a birthstone; maybe you'll spring for a trilobite cross-section for displaying in your living room or library. Either way, it's a great stop the next time you're in Old Town ABQ. read more

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OK so this is a pretty fun store! Now I'm no geologist or anything so when asking for help I truly thought I'd be getting the correct product LOL. So we bought a geode for our kids thinking this would be so much fun to crack open... After 30 minutes of trying to crack open a geode we realized this is not a geode . I'm a little disappointed that we were told this was a geode due to the employee helping us and handing us this rock. I tried to call but no one ever picks up the phone. read more

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Do not go to this store!!!! When I went into Mama's Minerals I had this bigger lady following me around the whole time I was there, Which made me EXTREMELY uncomfortable, I know it's because I'm a man of color which is very upsetting that they would hire a person like this! The person who checked me out was very nice and professional but this bigger lady had me feeling like I was doing something wrong when I should never feel this way walking around a store because of the color of my skin fix your problems Mamas minerals... read more

Mama's mineral has a lot of options. The store is big. They offer a nice variety of items. Prices are reasonable. There was a lot of parking. All the employees were so nice and provided great service. read more

Fun atmosphere with a wide variety of gems and beads at a range of affordable prices. Peices for show to use for every day practices or for jewellery. Shopping was so fun the employees were helpful even the customers were all so nice. read more

Mama's Minerals - Jewelry Near Me - Albuquerque, New Mexico

Massive gem/mineral/bead emporium! They even had fluorescent minerals! If you are are a collector of crystals/gemstones , love fossils or you make beaded jewelry - great place with a ton of options! They have equipment for those who gold mine and you can rent a metal detector to find treasures of your own. I was there to find cabochons and they did have a small selection of interesting cabochons for sale. The staff was nice and they really let you browse (the store is huge) and take your time enjoying everything! If you are make beaded jewelry, they have the largest selection of beads that I've seen here, all grouped by color and rows and rows. Overall, great store with beautiful crystal displays! read more

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A rock hound and lapadaryists dream come true! Want some rough to cut and polish? They got it! How about cut and polished stones to set in your jewelry creations, they have that too! Metal detectors and prospecting gear, yep they are your go to folks! How about fossils (not me) of all kinds of things? They've been digging them up for years! And beads? Miles and miles of them. Just walking around and looking at all the cools stuff is worth the trip there. So pop in and give it a look over you'll find more treasures that you can dream of! read more

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Was looking for a salt lamp to buy. Someone had recommended this place. Purchased a salt lamp from this store. They have a large array of stones and minerals there. They even have the accessories including earrings and bracelets. I want to visit here again to purchase more salt lamps as I know they are good cleansing the air and especially for relaxing. Some of the staff is friendly and some could use a little bit more training on customer service. But I'm not going to say I had a bad experience, just going to say my first time could've been better. read more

I could have been here all day! So many Crystals and amazing rocks! Beautiful place and nicely organized. If your into healing crystals this is the place to go! I will be back! read more

This store will appeal to both the science-minded and the spiritually inclined appreciators of crystals, minerals, and fossils. Obviously there's a TON to be said, so I'll try to keep it brief. In addition to a wide selection of all of the above, you'll find: -Lapidary equipment and rock-tumbling machines -Huge crystal display pieces - if you are decorating your dream house and want a crystal fountain, or tabletop, or just a giant cluster come here -Beads, beads, and more beads! -Jewelry -Books about crystals and minerals including local field guides for rock-hounding -Large rough crystals and minerals, intended to be cut and tumbled but some of which are very nice as is, if you like the rough style -An outdoor section with bargain rocks The stock can be kind of dusty, but when you're selling rocks in a store of this size that's to be expected. Sometimes the pricing is off too. I picked up a stone that was marked $3 and got rung up for $7 - the cashier was nice about fixing the mistake but I recommend keeping track of the prices yourself. Again, with this wide an inventory it's easy to see how this kind of thing can happen. Very much worth a visit! read more

The best place in town for pink Himalayan salt lamps! Bought several of these as Christmas gifts for family, and the selection/price was on point. The quality was better at Mama's Minerals than the lamps I saw online at various websites, but the prices were similar. Selection for the lamps run from small to large, and they showcase various shapes. Sales associates were friendly and made sure to securely package the lamps for my road trip home for the holidays! read more

I like how family friendly this store is and how they not only have stones in their raw form, but also in jewelry and gift sets. They even give you the capability to make your own jewelry or ornaments as well, if you're into that type of hobby. read more

Great new location for Mama's Minerals. Very near Old Town and only a couple of blocks away from the Natural History Museum. The have an expanded selection of all sorts of rocks and minerals as well as beads, lapidary equipment and metal detectors. Staff was friendly and helpful even as they were trying to unpack everything from the move and get themselves established! read more

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So much to see, so little time. Lol Staff was so friendly and helpful. Prices were affordable and they had a lot of things. Rocks gems beads and classes on bead work. Will have to return. read more