For beginners, like Bel and me, spotting an agate is hard. Taylor recommends hunting right after a storm, as the waves from ...

We met up with him at a secluded beach on Lake Superior right ... Today, Moose Lake, Minnesota, proudly calls itself the Agate Capitol of the world. For more than 50 years, it’s hosted Agate ...

The town has embraced the stones so much that every summer they have Agate Days, also known as the largest rock show in Minnesota, with over 100 vendors. People show up to buy, trade, polish and ...

The best agate-hunting spots in Minnesota are apparent on a map — a map of the path glaciers took some 10,000-20,000 years ago. "It's really hard to say when the agates got dropped into Central ...

Formed in and around the lake during volcanic eruptions about a billion years ago, these gemstones were distributed across the landscapes of northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin during a ...