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 ...

Armed with pickaxes on a rural fossicking property in Queensland, Kathy Bone's young grandchildren are on the hunt for mysterious "thunder eggs". The rocks were formed in lava gas bubbles more than ...

TREASURED COLLECTIONS: Kids are famously apt to collect anything, from dolls to their older brother's CD collection to bits of string. But there's one object pretty much anyone under the age of ten ...

Thousands of people travelled to the little village of Ilakaka seeking their fortune, making the population boom from 85 to around 100,000 inhabitants. Sapphires of high quality were found in alluvial ...

Recently, I spent the weekend at a mine in Herkimer County, New York digging for diamonds. That’s right — my family and I spent hours out in the hot sun banging on rocks in search of the elusive ...

For centuries people have had a fascination with gemstones. They've inspired myths, been used for medicinal purposes, as well as to create jewelry. After all, a kiss on the hand may be quite ...