Joseph was said to have an ability to use seer stones for locating lost items and buried treasure.

Smith's translation process evolved naturally out of his previous use of seer stones in treasure seeking.

He was also a believer in Smith's powers with his seer stone.

According to , Smith is paid 75 cents to locate a stolen roll of cloth with his seer stone.

The angel requires him to return in exactly one year with the "right person"; Smith was to know that person by looking in his seer stone.

Smith dictates a revelation to Orson Pratt using his white seer stone.

Smith claimed the text was in "reformed Egyptian" and that he translated it using a seer stone.

Smith had been accused of "treasure digging" and use of a "seer stone".

Smith owned at least two seer stones, which he had earlier employed for treasure seeking before he founded the church.

Is Gazelem the seer stone or the servant?