Nature News Radio

Rick Jacquot

Hi, I have been a resident of Western North Carolina since 1987. After resuming my rockhounding activities in 1989, I began compiling a wealth of information on regional collecting sites, later published in my best selling guidebook "Rock, Gem, and Mineral Collecting Sites in Western North Carolina". Today I spend my time educating people about the rockhounding/mineral collecting hobby. Organizing trips for the M.A.G.M.A. club, writing articles for Rock & Gem Magazine, Nature News Radio/The Mineral Minute, Rockhounding DVD's, etc. these are all tools that I use to promote the hobby. My other hobbies include SCUBA diving for fossils and artifacts, collecting rocks, collecting minerals, collecting gems, collecting just about anything that has to do with nature.