DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. -- Want to get rich quickly? If you're feeling lucky, you may want to travel to far western Dinwiddie County and Lucky Lake Gem and Mineral Mine. That's where people go to ...

AMELIA, Va., May 28 (UPI) -- The Morefield Gem Mine, a Virginia landmark, will close next week if it cannot be sold, the owners say. The owners of the Amelia, Va., mine have had it up for sale for ...

Troutt applied to the Virginia Board of Education and met its ... They drove to Little Switzerland, N.C., and saw a gem mine along the road. "We just thought, well, that looks like it could ...

Often called “rockhounding,” the search for gems and minerals has been popular for decades. One of the earliest accounts of mining in what is now the United States comes from the Pueblo ...