Whether you're an avid rock collector or simply interested in the world around you — this new tool is designed to make ...

The USGS publishes a geological map that reveals the underground layers of the U.S. and supports environmental education and ...

A little knowledge of rocks and minerals will help you identify everything from jewelry to fossils. While reading this article may not turn you into a geologist, it should give you the basic ...

The specimens in the Science History Institute's latest exhibit are spiky, striking and, in some cases, fluorescent. A few are toxic, and at least one is otherworldly. All of them are on permanent ...

Like many abandoned mines, the Eureka uranium mine in northern Spain is a maze of long, dank tunnels. Water seeping down the walls carries dissolved substances that percolated through rocks overhead.

The Ishpeming Rock and Mineral Club will meet at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025 at the Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum, 501 W. Euclid St., in Ishpeming. Dean Rossell, chief geologist for Talon Metals ...

DUNLAP, Tenn. | When Ed Lewis and some of his neighbors bought property on a scenic Tennessee mountain, they knew they didn’t own the mineral rights to the land, but they assumed a coal mining revival ...

A Joplin native’s lifelong collection of minerals and rocks has been donated to t History & Mineral Museum, expanding the pieces that can be displayed and studied. Ava Gager Smith, a 1957 graduate of ...

The Yakima Rock and Mineral club will hold its annual show Friday through SundayApril 22-24, 2022, in the Modern Living Building at State Fair Park. This year’s event is the 59th Parade of Gems and ...

It's the latest trend in makeup, and yet its ingredients are as old as the hills. Minerals are popping up in foundations, lipsticks and eye shadows. They're said to soothe acne. They're supposed to ...