MOOSE LAKE, Minn. — Fall is hunting season in Minnesota, but folks walking near the Moose Lake Airport aren't looking for pheasants or deer — they're hunting for a gemstone. "There's a pretty nice one ...

Craig Prudhomme is a former naturalist and has been involved in planning Moose Lake’s Agate Days weekend for 18 years. Moose Lake is home to the largest agate on record. It weighs 108 pounds. “In 1969 ...

The beaches at Grand Marais are excellent hunting grounds for the ancient Lake Superior agate, a semi-precious stone made up of concentric circles of microcrystaline quartz reddened by iron. Here’s ...

Selling the red, orange and yellow chunks of banded rock known as Lake Superior agate requires more than just owning a collection of the beautiful semi-precious gemstones. You also need to figure out ...

Harley Alcala says he found the mother lode of Lake Superior agates right in Lake Superior. Alcala was kayaking near his home in Hovland on the North Shore when he spotted the basketball-size rock ...

Timing can be everything when it comes to finding Lake Superior agates. "It's like treasure hunting," says Butch Goldenstein of St. Cloud, an agate enthusiast who manned a table at the annual Agate ...

What’s more peaceful than walking down the beach and looking for that perfect rock? For one woman in the Upper Peninsula’s village of Grand Marais, those rocks have a very special meaning, especially ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. - Minnesota's state gemstone is the Lake Superior agate, and for years it has fascinated those young and old. In response to a viewer question from our kiosk at the Science Museum ...

Sisters Jessica Sander and Jen Majkrzak look for agates in a Carlton County gravel pit. Their dad was an avid agate collector whose home is filled with vases, and even a lamp, of agates. He took ...

In a full day's search on the last day of March, Mike Jacobs of Monticello and I found 121 agates. That seemed a lot to an amateur like me, whose agate hunting has been largely confined to looking ...

In 1969, the Minnesota Legislature declared the Lake Superior agate to be the state's official gemstone. Moose Lake has dubbed itself the "agate capital of the world" and Agate Days are celebrated ...