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This tiny southern town is the 'quartz capital of the world'—and you can dig for your own crystals
The tiny town of Mount Ida is home to rock shops, you-dig quartz mines, and national forest trails.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A family digs for crystals at the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge. In northern Oklahoma, there are more than 11,000 acres of ...
Some modern-day prospectors make thousands of dollars selling precious stones they dug up themselves. By Alexandra Marvar Moonstones in Montana, amethyst and emeralds in North Carolina, garnet and ...
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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JET, Okla. – A popular Oklahoma tourist ...
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 ...
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