Rockhounding the Rockies

As I'm writing this I have a pocket of crystals waiting on me up at Lake George. The site is fairly remote, so I'm not too worried ...

Is it still rock hounding if you enter a store and fine a nice specimen from a mine that is closed and will never reopen again and purchase...

. Well, now that I've got your attention the specimen above came from Brazil, but there is amethyst in Colorado, just not the big g...

Crystal Mass on Boulder Today was set aside for prospecting as I had cleaned out my latest pocket. I revisited one spot where I had fou...

Back to Lake George to dig crystals again today. We had planned to go to a certain spot, but I never got there. Only 5 minutes into the hik...

So what's the big deal about a super moon anyway? The moon's orbit about the earth is not a perfect circle but elliptical .  Super ...

My rockhounding partner and I decided to try a different area of Lake George, one we hadn't prospected much for a couple of years. The ...