CRYSTAL PARK, Mont. — Molten granite formed the Pioneer Mountain Range in southwest Montana about 72-million years ago. As the granite cooled, water carried quartz and other minerals through the rocks ...

As I turned yet another shovelful of dirt, I thought about a comment made long ago by the millionaire, Andrew Carnegie: “Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons ...

This mine is open to the public. You dig with your own hands. Whatever crystals you find, you keep. This video shows exactly how it works and what you can pull out of the ground .

Moonstones in Montana, amethyst and emeralds in North Carolina, garnet and quartz in upstate New York. At pay-to-dig mines around the United States, visitors can paw through piles of mine tailings to ...

As summer days are in full swing, Oklahomans are taking part in adventures across the state. For all you that nerd out over that cool rock you found, and we say nerd out in the most loving way ...

Wear jeans and bring along a small pickax. Expect crowds, but don’t worry — crystal enthusiasts tend to be a genial, family-friendly lot. By Malia Wollan “If you’re looking for crystals, Arkansas is ...

Happiness can, of course, come in many forms. For a rockhound — and I know this well, being one — it’s all but guaranteed by time spent patiently probing the ground at a mine somewhere, hoping to ...

BOEKENHOUTHOEK, South Africa—Crouched in the mouth of a hand-dug tunnel here, Linki Mugidi chisels the walls in search of a crystal used by Western wellness practitioners and of the sort promoted by ...