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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...