In a full day's search on the last day of March, Mike Jacobs of Monticello and I found 121 agates. That seemed a lot to an amateur like me, whose agate hunting has been largely confined to looking ...

Jan O’Neil patiently rifled through piles of rocks Friday morning north of Cloquet. As she hunted for agates, quartz and jasper (her favorite), dust rose from the pile. She sprayed a rock with water ...

Four Corners Gem and Mineral Club will host a free lecture, “Agates versus Jaspers: what they are and how to tell them apart,” at 6 p.m. Monday at 2351 Main Ave. Member Tom Strain will bring examples ...

I think I have always been enthralled with rocks, having the rock hammer my mother bought for me more than 60 years ago hanging on the "birdroom" wall of my backwater cabin. And, even though one would ...

No one makes eye contact. They're too intent on the ground, searching for one of Central Minnesota's oldest buried treasures: Lake Superior agates. Butch Goldenstein figures he's found hundreds of ...

Designers say local materials reduce their environmental impact and are aesthetically pleasing, too. By Rachel Garrahan Gray-white billows swirl across the surface of an agate ring in Sian Evans’s new ...