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Today on GMN Amanda Agamaite, the Marketing Coordinator with Ursa Minor Brewing joins Sierra Naess to chat about their ...
A free chipping day event will be held in Lafarge next Tuesday (Aug. 5) and in Agate Bay the following Monday (Aug. 11).
Sugarloaf Point SNA near Schroeder, Minnesota, is home to a pebble beach full of treasures. It's an agate hunter's paradise.
Detailed geochemical investigations of Permian volcanic rocks in Saxony have demonstrated that agate formation is intricately linked to the late-stage alteration of host rocks, with marked ...
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Now, a team of researchers say the suspiciously spherical agate formed inside a 60-million-year-old dinosaur egg. The agatized egg likely belonged to a titanosaur, which were common in what is now ...
Meet the rock whisperer. Mike Smith has been taking trips to Moose Lake for about 15 years now, he said, to hunt for agates - small stones formed eons ago that gleam in the sunlight and capture the ...
Kayla Gahagan Journal correspondent May 16, 2013 Updated Sep 29, 2015 0 ...
He said many seasoned agate hunters stick to digging higher up on the shore, where the heavier rocks and agates are deposited. “If you're hunting in small gravel, you're gonna find small agates ...