Cut from an 88-carat emerald crystal, the pear-shaped “Carolina ... forever after word spread of his find. “Oprah” and “Inside Edition” came calling. People magazine featured him.

Libby and Kevin Barrieault were the first to strike gold ... Emerald Mine in Hiddenite, N.C., last Friday. The next day, Terry Lofgren and her fiance John Kehoe found a pocket of emerald crystals.

The world’s largest producer of green stones has unearthed a 5,655-carat emerald crystal at its mines in Zambia. The stone, which weighs more than 1.1 kg (almost 2.5 lbs), was found at the ...

The prospectors had unearthed what would come to be called the Patricia Emerald: a dazzling 12-sided crystal roughly the ... part by their association with gold. As insoluble stones, the gems ...