A.K. Miles of Salem spent summers as a little girl traveling the Pacific Northwest with her grandparents, collecting rocks and helping her great-grandfather cut and polish them in his lapidary shop.

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6v2d54/gem_stone_cutting) has announced the addition of the "Gem Stone ...

Rocks have not changed in 90 years, and neither have the type of people who would join the San Francisco Gem & Mineral Society, which started in 1935 for the hobby of rock cutting and polishing and ...

Joe Cota and Brad Newport, two Linn County collectors of petrified wood, will appear next month on a Travel Channel program called "The Best Places to Find Cash and Treasures." Hosted by Kirsten Gum, ...