Searching for Quartz in the Ouachitas

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich

Published October 13, 2020 at 1:28 PM CDT

"The Holy Grail" quartz crystal on display at Crystal Bridges Museum of American art in 2018.

The Ozarks may not have quartz, but another part of the state does. We go more than 20 years back in the Ozarks at Large archive to 1997 for a trip to the Ouachita Mountains.

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