AGATE comes from the quartz family and is found in countless shades and colors, from blue to black and from pink to bright firey red. The properties associated with agate can vary based on the color ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Known for their colors and patterns, collectors are often amazed at agates that turn up on Upper Peninsula lakeshores, with some ...

In a full day's search on the last day of March, Mike Jacobs of Monticello and I found 121 agates. That seemed a lot to an amateur like me, whose agate hunting has been largely confined to looking ...