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.

Discovering hidden treasures lying around the Okanagan Valley is what the Vernon Lapidary and Mineral Club does best. Some of the 200 members go out searching for rocks that can be polished and ...

The Natrona County Rockhounds Club hosts its 65th annual Rock, Gem and Mineral Show this weekend. This year’s show is dedicated to Bob Kope who founded club in 1946. He died in 2011. The show’s theme ...