American Fluorite Museum — Attraction in Rosiclare

This was so much fun. Old mining equipment to explore, an awesome museum with mining displays and fluorite specimens and a pile of mine tailings to dig through for your own memento. I would recommend this for everyone and families will find it an entertaining stop on any roadtrip in the area. Not sure of other days but Fridays they're ope 1pm to 4pm and Saturdays from...

We went in Saturday July 6th at 2:43pm and they were closed- no sign or anything telling us that it would be closed- wasted 1 hr trip We were sitting in the parking lot for10 min trying to figure where to go next- they opened the gates and let us look. They said they were closed for the season...

Very interesting things to see. This place has Fluorite rocks. Rosiclare Illinois is known for their rocks. Would be great to bring kids to this place. And they have a gift shop and we have a rock pile out there for all ages to pick thru. It's like a treasure hunt. It's only a...