Cathy Fecho looks at a large quartz crystal specimen for sale at her Fiddler’s Ridge Rock Shop outside of Mount Ida. Her son owns Twin Creek Crystal Mine where it was found.
(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Aaron Gettinger)
MOUNT IDA -- In 1984, Cathy Fecho moved with her husband, Jim, from southern Illinois to operate some mines they bought in Arkansas. Jim, who died a year ago, had always been a rock hound -- the two ran a rock shop 10 miles south of Effingham -- and she...
