It’s high excitement for Becky Scheffler and me, Kevin Whitmore. We are the gemstone buyers for Rio Grande, and we are departing on our first ever trip to Morocco, to visit our supplier of amethyst. Amethyst is a purple form of quartz, quite popular, and named as the birthstone for people born in the month […]
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A Visit to Sunstone Butte Mine
I banged my head on the side of the pickup’s cabin as we bounced over an especially deep rut. Dave gestured off to the left, “You can see the claim over on that rise.” At that point, we left the teeth-rattling washboard county road and started down the trail to his mining site. This trail […]