In Western North Carolina, rockhounds have plenty of opportunities to dig for gems, if they don’t mind getting a little dirty ...

Here are my takeaways from quartz crystal mining at Avant: The post I Went Digging for Gems at Avant Mining. Here’s My Quartz Crystal Mining Experience on Fisher Mountain. appeared first on Sand ...

Once the meal was over, I would drive to Paris and spend the afternoon with my mom at Dig Maine Gems. Dig Maine is a family-owned business that provides you with a bucket, shovel, sluice and a big ...

As is the case with dozens of pay-to-dig gemstone sites across the United States, it was "finders, keepers". The lucky explorer named his jewel the "Carine Diamond" after his fiancée, and while ...

Where is the best place to dig for crystals? If you’re wondering exactly where to find crystals, plenty of gem mines are open to the public, some with or without reservation. “There are ...

NBC Montana met Karla Schaff digging for crystals with her family ... He found a nice sized gem to show us. "(I) sifted all the dirt and I just rummaged through the rocks and found this ...

Hager and family travelled from Denver to spend the holiday weekend digging. They brought battery ... key with the Preiss estate for a specific gemstone — a topaz according to his interpretation ...

But their true love is digging for gemstones, which has brought them for years to Mary’s home state of Maine, the site of some of the best tourmaline hunting in the world. Since 2003 ...

Recently, I spent the weekend at a mine in Herkimer County, New York digging for diamonds ... In a way, employees can be a lot like these hidden gems. They may come to work each day and do ...