Find hidden crystals and explore curious alien legends at this Arkansas gem, perfect for families, explorers, and treasure ...

The tiny town of Mount Ida is home to rock shops, you-dig quartz mines, and national forest trails.

When I thought of quartz crystal in Arkansas — if I thought of quartz crystal in Arkansas — I thought of the rock shops that used to line the highway into Hot Springs, the ones with the big blue glass ...

If you’re feeling dreary — and it’s been a dreary time, hasn’t it? — my advice is to think about crystals. Unfathomably large crystals, if possible. Big news from the crystal beat: A 7-foot-tall, ...

A crystal is a solid in which constituent molecules or atoms are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern, distinct from the arrangement of atoms in an amorphous solid. The surface geometry of a ...

You might have heard of clear quartz-like crystals, Microcrystalline quartz. It is a special kind of quartz that forms in tiny crystals, so small that you usually need a microscope to see them. These ...