HORATIO, Ark.—Alvie Nix has a glimmer in his eye when he goes hunting.

He is a hunter looking for diamonds near Horatio, Ark.

Nix lives among rolling hills, pastures and clear creeks. Poets might mention the landscape in their writings about deer, birds, wildflowers and serenity.

He rides a small tractor or his car to a clear creek among the small rolling hills east of Horatio, Ark. in Sevier County.

The sound of the small, flowing creek is soothing and hypnotic. Nix sits on a 5-gallon plastic bucket and fills up another bucket in front of him wi...

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