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This Tiny Southern Town Is the ‘Quartz Capital of the World’—and You Can Dig for Your Own Crystals
The tiny town of Mount Ida is home to rock shops, you-dig quartz mines, and national forest trails.
When I set out to write a story about visiting Crystal Peak, a former mine site now managed by the U.S. Forest Service just east of Truckee, California, I worried it would be a bust. Either the ...
Scientists in Spain investigated which characteristics of crystals may have made them so fascinating to our ancestors.
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