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Archive Home > 2007 > April > 22 > Hunting for 'glittering things'

Hunting for 'glittering things'

By Rachael Scarborough King / The Bulletin
April 22, 2007

In addition to the area's fossil activity, Crook County also has a vibrant "rockhounding" culture - people who like to search for minerals like agates, geodes and thundereggs, Oregon's state rock.

Ellen Morris Bishop, of the Oregon Paleo Lands Institute, said the volcanoes that covered....

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