If you are breaking into the lapidary business, try to specialize in one or two main areas. Scope out your competition, and gear the offerings in your rock shop toward what they lack. So you want to ...

C&M Rock Shop, a mom-and-pop shop in Honor, stokes a passion for one of Michigan’s finest multi-generational family experiences, rock hunting. C&M Rock Shop started as a summer project. Bruce and ...

The Woolsey Fire destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings in Southern California. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Rich Savko, owner of The Rock Store bar that survived, about reopening his business.

Mark and Tina Bennett sell coprolite specimens at their store, Spencer Lapidary. And if you don’t know what most of that means, you have plenty of company. A lapidary is an artisan who turns stones ...

Not many convenience stores can call themselves community landmarks, but such a description can accurately be laid on the Rock Store. The business, which has served the area since before the U.S.