Discovery in a Dirty Rock

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”

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”