There’s treasure in Washington’s mountains, beaches and creeks. It comes in the form of crystals and agates, fossils and petrified wood. The state is rock hounding paradise, say those who pursue the ...

Rock hounding is known as the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, and rock hounds have been out in full force lately in several locations of Lewis County, Washington, known for a variety ...

Thanks to fire and ice, treasures abound. This summer, agate collectors are on the hunt in eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin, searching for rocks that can fetch as much as thousands of dollars ...

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 ...

The soft nicker of a horse and the creak of leather. The warm swallow of spirits from the "stirrup cup" on a frosty morning. Chatting with friends against the baying of hounds ready for the chase. And ...

MARYSVILLE — It starts with a curiosity for the natural world. Add in new friendships and the chance to travel, and more than 100 people are hooked on the Marysville Rock and Gem Club. Terry Maple, 76 ...

My first memory of mica (the mineral) was going rockhounding with my dad in Ruggles Mine back in the '60s. I was little and the caves seemed huge, the mica glittered, and I remember huge transparent ...

When I was a kid I had this plastic box filled with bits of various rock and mineral types, each one labeled for identification. It sat among my other scientific "discoveries," including everything ...