CHICAGO -- A group of 9- and 10-year-old boys found a fun way to spend their summer break. They stumbled on a gold mine â or rather, a rock mine â that has turned into a sparkling success.Carter, Isiah, Tommy, and Pete are buds from the same neighborhood in Lombard. Now they're business partners.'Isiah was smashing these rocks with a hammer, and he found one of the gems,' Carter said. 'Then Isiah said we should sell these, and then we just started selling them.
'Then, the next day, I wasn't home, an my husband called me, and he sent me a video of Carter walking in our house with, I think it was $12,' she said. Word of their venture spread after Carter's dad posted about it on a local Facebook community page, offering refunds to any dissatisfied customers'We had 300-plus comments on it, and we were like blowing up for it,' Tommy said. 'We were going viral,' Carter said.