Crystals can empower and invigorate you and gemstones can enhance your life if you know how to use them. Jeffrey Colson/NYPOST Crystals and gem stones: nature’s eye candy and free sparkling jewels.

Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas is the only state park in the U.S. where you can dig for diamonds and keep them. You'll also be able to find gems like quartz, agate, garnet, and jasper ...

Designers say local materials reduce their environmental impact and are aesthetically pleasing, too. By Rachel Garrahan Gray-white billows swirl across the surface of an agate ring in Sian Evans’s new ...

Mineral deposits can create markings that look like forests or mountains, and experts say each stone is distinctive. By Jill Newman When Tarun Adlakha displays a dendritic agate, with its finely ...

L-196 (Eel River Chert): Provenience includes samples from gravel deposits. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens. L-196 (Eel River Chert) Eel River chert ...

Much of the recent excess of summer was veiled on this Mayo hillside by days of Atlantic drizzle (not wholly unwelcome; we are a temperate pair). But along with media images of human throngs at the ...

The Gem Shop returns to Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles on Thursday, Oct. 12, for Stone-A-Palooza 2023. Based in Wisconsin, The Gem Shop is a full lapidary specializing in agates & ...

Jan O’Neil patiently rifled through piles of rocks Friday morning north of Cloquet. As she hunted for agates, quartz and jasper (her favorite), dust rose from the pile. She sprayed a rock with water ...