DULUTH — About 1.1 billion years ago here, fissures opened in the surface of the earth, depositing lakes of molten rock near what would eventually be the Twin Ports and Lake Superior. This is ...

Tom Woodden likes to compare hunting for Fairburn agates to trout fishing. “It’s like reeling in that big one,” said Woodden, who is known to have one of the world’s largest Fairburn agate collections ...

Hunting for Lake Superior agates along the St. Croix River. Eric Benson has been hunting for Lake Superior agates along the St. Croix River for the past seven years. The avid angler searches for the ...

Agate hunting on the St. Croix River, forest therapy and Huellas Latinas. This episode of Prairie Sportsman features agate hunting on the St. Croix River, forest therapy and the nonprofit Huellas ...

MOOSE LAKE, Minn. — On a cold, blustery day in April, Bel and I headed to the North Shore to meet up with a rock star named Taylor, or as he’s known on social media, “Agate Dad.” Taylor is famous in ...

(KRON) — California State Parks, which manages more than 340 miles of California’s coastline, is asking the public not to collect any sea glass, agates or other rocks found at state beaches. Although ...

Agates are rocks. More specifically, they’re a form of chalcedony typically semi-transparent to translucent. Size-wise, more often than not, agates range somewhere between a jelly bean and a ...

Known for their integrated colors and patterns, collectors are often amazed at agates that wind up on Upper Peninsula lakeshores. Known for its diversity and beauty, an agate stone is a form of quartz ...

After a day of agate-hunting went terribly wrong for a 23-year-old Rapid City man, a federal court ordered he'll foot the $16,704 bill for the approximately 2,600-acre fire he admitted to accidentally ...

Soft copper wire : wire size to make pendant with agate stone 30x16mm (can + a few centimeters to depreciate) 20 gauge (wire diameter 0.8mm): 30cm (12 inch) 22 gauge (wire diameter 0.6mm): 25cm (10 ...