It was just another dirty rock in a pile of landscaping material but it seemed different somehow. I picked it up, turned it around and discovered the sparkling splendor of crystals in a small cavity. I couldn’t help wonder how many other things in life are like that, dusty, discarded, but well worth a secondContinue reading “Discovery in a Dirty Rock”
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Gems from the Glory Hole Mine
Mountains, mines, and the minerals they held kept me longing for the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. We would go camping there once or twice a year when I was a kid growing up in Nebraska. I could find the outwash from the mountains in the Platte River where I lived, but nothing matched finding theContinue reading “Gems from the Glory Hole Mine”