From first thaw to when the snow flies, Captain Eddie White can be found on the banks of the Yellowstone River, hunting for treasure.

No one makes eye contact. They're too intent on the ground, searching for one of Central Minnesota's oldest buried treasures: Lake Superior agates. Butch Goldenstein figures he's found hundreds of ...

Agates are another lower Yellowstone River attraction. Millions of years ago, volcanoes ruled Montana east of the mountains. Powerful eruptions of molten lava and ash covered and destroyed hundreds of ...

Head bent, eyes fixed on the ground, Doug True prowled along the river’s edge. After a few moments, he clawed at a rock embedded in the sandy soil, lifting it out of the ground with the curved metal ...

The Idaho Gem and Mineral Society (IFG&MS) will be holding its Annual Members Rock, Gem and Jewelry Sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Bonneville County Fairgrounds. There will be ...

At 76, he may have slowed down just a bit, but he’s still the avid rock hound he was growing up on a Montana ranch. Skierka remembers finding his first rock, the one that ignited his lifelong passion ...

When Jan Graham was a child, her father worked for the National Park Service and the family traveled a lot as her father’s job took her from park to park. Along the way she started to collect rocks ...

The prospector in Tom Harmon brings him back to the river. He first felt the itch when his grandmother took him rock-hunting as a boy on his father s place at Crane, south of Sidney. On a hill above ...