Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Prayers beads hang waiting to be sold as Shia Muslim pilgrims arrive to take part in a religious ...

Marty Schaerer has been rocking and rolling for years. She’s also been cutting, sanding, polishing, setting, and searching for years. That’s because Schaerer makes one-of-a-kind jewelry out of agate ...

Robbie Hollis' bracelet is lovely. Links of pierced and engraved silver alternate with solid stone shapes in several colors. A nice contemporary look. The thing is, Hollis has had the bracelet for 60 ...

Dong Guirong teaches students winding techniques on agate gemstones in Xin Barga Right Banner, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in August last year. CHINA DAILY Despite being partially sighted, Dong ...

Prayers beads hang waiting to be sold as Shia Muslim pilgrims arrive to take part in a religious ritual in the shrine city of Karbala, southwest of Iraq's capital Baghdad, on Jan. 2. Agate-based ...

Once contracted, silicosis itself is incurable and the acute form is fatal. Moreover, it has been shown to cause lung cancer and it makes its sufferers three times more likely to contract tuberculosis ...

Doctors say the 50-year-old is dying of silicosis, a wasting lung disease that he contracted inhaling deadly silica dust as a grinder of agates — colorful, semi-precious stones exported to the United ...