There’s treasure in Washington’s mountains, beaches and creeks. It comes in the form of crystals and agates, fossils and petrified wood. The state is rock hounding paradise, say those who pursue the ...

Rock hounding is known as the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, and rock hounds have been out in full force lately in several locations of Lewis County, Washington, known for a variety ...

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 ...

MARYSVILLE — It starts with a curiosity for the natural world. Add in new friendships and the chance to travel, and more than 100 people are hooked on the Marysville Rock and Gem Club. Terry Maple, 76 ...

My first memory of mica (the mineral) was going rockhounding with my dad in Ruggles Mine back in the '60s. I was little and the caves seemed huge, the mica glittered, and I remember huge transparent ...

A Huckleberry Friend was in the right place at the right time – to protect a little girl who had wandered away from her mother Thursday evening. The Coeur d’Alene woman who asked to remain anonymous ...