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 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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Collecting rocks and minerals has a long history. Collections ...

As a young boy, Dr. James Gebel grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he built his childhood mineral collection of mostly Mexican and Southern Illinois specimens, as well as self-collected wonders of ...

Bruce Dice believes his mineral collection is a tribute to the artist that created the exquisite pieces: “When you see the beautiful things that God has created, you want to keep them in front of you ...

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 ...

In 1820, the year Maine won its statehood, two college students were hiking in the western foothills when, in waning autumn daylight, they spotted a glint of green among a tangle of upturned roots.

One of the mining tunnels available to tour at the Sterling Hill Mining Museum. Creative Commons An exhibit inside the Sterling Hill Mining Museum. Creative Commons In a New Jersey mine spanning 2,670 ...

Fall Rock Swap and Open House. When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Where: D.W. Correll Museum, 19934 E. Pine St. in Catoosa. Event highlights 1. Eric Hamshar, director of the D.W. Correll Museum, said ...

A.K. Miles of Salem spent summers as a little girl traveling the Pacific Northwest with her grandparents, collecting rocks and helping her great-grandfather cut and polish them in his lapidary shop.

HARRISBURG -- The Pennsylvania legislature has a lot on its plate this year, including rocks. Lawmakers have introduced bills to designate a state mineral. Quartz and celestine are in the running.