If you’re feeling dreary — and it’s been a dreary time, hasn’t it? — my advice is to think about crystals. Unfathomably large crystals, if possible. Big news from the crystal beat: A 7-foot-tall, ...

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — A large quartz crystal cluster was stolen from a gem mine in western North Carolina, authorities said. The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday ...

A photo of a $3.5 million chunk of quartz resurfaced on the Reddit home page Sunday, about two years after it was discovered in an Arkansas mine. The image shows a man posing with an 8-foot block of ...

Police in Western North Carolina are on the hunt for a large quartz crystal cluster they say was stolen from a gem mine. The gem is believed to have been stolen from the Elijah Mountain Gem Mine in ...

Note to editors: Photos of the Berns Quartz’s arrival and display are available via Dropbox (password: quartz). News media use of these photos in relation to the Berns Quartz is permitted with ...

In and around Mount Ida, the identity of the official Arkansas State Mineral can be guessed just by looking around. In fact (pun alert!), the laureate is crystal-clear from billboards and other signs.