As a young girl growing up in Buck Run, Jane Yoder Steranko and her brother, Chris, enjoyed exploring the fields, woods and coal banks around their home, looking for treasures. “We were kids, just ...

Apr. 7—Pink, green and blue tourmaline, aquamarine beryl and deep red garnet, purple amethyst and sparkling lepidolite — they all lie buried in Maine granite. To find them, all you have to do is dig — ...

Linda Castro, left, assistant policy director of CalWild, with her dog Cash, and Gregor Losson, an advocate for rock and mineral collectors, study a specimen at Cady Mountains in Mojave Trails ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. On June 19, the Stillwater Rockers rockhounding club gathered for their inaugural meeting in ...

“Before”: rough amazonite stones found in the Pikes Peak area, collected by Cheyenne Mountain-area resident Dan Romaniszyn. “After”: polished amazonite stones embedded in knotholes of a wooden slab ...

When Sanford Lake dried to its lakebed, Sanford resident Cody Wiedenbein saw it as a treasure hunt. After looking through a riverbed attached to the lakebed, he found what he was looking for: rocks.

Popular rockhounding areas along the Columbia Basin in Washington are hot spots for agates and fossils. The gemstone Carnelian is considered an agate. Courtesy WA Department of Natural Resources ...

Nevada may be nicknamed The Silver State, but our desert landscape holds more than just that one type of treasure. What we lack in water we make up for with a veritable cornucopia of minerals, stones ...

Sometimes hobbies begin just by noticing something different. Cheyenne Mountain-area resident Dan Romaniszyn and his wife, Cherryl, were driving near Colorado Springs looking for a scenic area for her ...

Washington state is a hotbed for minerals, gemstones, crystals and fossils, making the Evergreen state a popular site for rockhounding. Whether in an official group or going solo, rockhounding is the ...