A quiet Gold Rush continues in Oregon’s high desert. Serious rockhounds, weekend prospectors and people selling the state’s official gemstone are staking claims and digging for sunstones. Sunstones?

Prospectors started flooding into Oregon looking for gold in 1848. Modern-day miners searching for rocks that glitter can stake a claim on federal lands. Or, an aspiring claim owner with deep pockets ...

open to public LOCATION!!! This is a wonderful experience that you will want to do over and over! Sunstones are a variety of feldspar, they are very gemmy. Sunstones coming out of Oregon are very ...