Quartz Crystal Mining

Open pit mining for quartz crystals near Mount Ida (Montgomery County).

White tourists in open pit mine

Courtesy of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism

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Time Period

Divergent Prosperity and the Arc of Reform (1968–2022)

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Cities and Towns / Counties, Cities, and Towns / Montgomery

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Halved rocks displaying interiors of purple crystal Quartz Mining Mountain highway with two cars driving uphill past striped posts on gravel shoulder Mount Ida (Montgomery County)