Gold Prospecting & Treasure Hunting

The Buckwheat Dump: New Jersey’s Fluorescent Mineral Field

A blacklight clicks on and the gray, unremarkable rock in your hand suddenly isn’t gray...

Somewhere below the boots of a visitor descending into darkness, the rock still bears the marks of...

A guide hands over a shallow pan and nods toward the stream running behind a row of...

Water swirls in a shallow steel pan, mud and gravel spinning in slow circles while a pair of hands...

A small brown stone sits in the palm of a hand, unremarkable at first glance, just another pebble...

A crystal comes out of the rock pile catching the light from two directions at once, pointed at...

Cold creek water runs over a screen tray, and for a second nothing looks like anything but wet...

Sunlight hits the sand and something answers back, a scatter of green, brown, and white catching...

A tangle of blackened timber and corroded iron fittings lies half-buried in the sand at the...

A wave pulls back across the sand and leaves behind a scattering of dark, glossy fragments that...