This agatized coral is more than just a rock it’s a window into Earth’s ancient past. Formed over 20 million years, the coral’s structure was slowly replaced with silica, creating dazzling agate ...

A driveway with a trailer full of agates. Recycling bins full of agates. A license plate that reads “MRAGATE.” Agates when you walk through the front door. And an agate that just came in the mail. For ...

EAST GULL LAKE, Minn. -- With the summer sun overhead, Sharon Smith will relax on an air mattress and float on the lake just inches above the bottom -- for her quarry is near the shore. Sometimes it ...

"We’ve almost died a few times," he said, recounting stories from all seasons. But it's not gold he's after — it's rocks. More precisely, agate. Finding a Fairburn agate takes dedication and ...

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 ...