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?

PLUSH, Ore. -- Out where the sagebrush hugs the sky and the antelope roam nearby, there are sunbeams in stones, there for the taking. "Plush diamonds" they were called by the lonesome cowboys who ...

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 ...

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