Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A family digs for crystals at the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge. In northern Oklahoma, there are more than 11,000 acres of ...

CRYSTAL PARK, Mont. — Molten granite formed the Pioneer Mountain Range in southwest Montana about 72-million years ago. As the granite cooled, water carried quartz and other minerals through the rocks ...

Grab your shovels as we visit a spot in Oklahoma where you can dig for crystals. And the kind you uncover can't be found anywhere else in the world. When you arrive at the Great Salt Plains in Jet, ...

As summer days are in full swing, Oklahomans are taking part in adventures across the state. For all you that nerd out over that cool rock you found, and we say nerd out in the most loving way ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service re-opens the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge Selenite Crystal Dig Area. The area will open to digging at 8 a.m. on Saturday, April 25. The re-opening will ...

The Sooner State boasts nine wildlife refuges, each offering a one-of-a-kind adventure in a different setting. For instance, when you're enjoying a serene escape in Medicine Park, considered America's ...

As I turned yet another shovelful of dirt, I thought about a comment made long ago by the millionaire, Andrew Carnegie: “Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons ...