ASHLAND, Wis.—Northland College’s Dr. Thomas Newton Bobb is unlikely to have ever referred to himself as a rock star, but for the students in Tom Fitz’s Minerals and Rocks class, that’s exactly what ...

Aug. 21—Tahlequah Rock and Mineral Society is prepping for its annual earth science event. Michael Keys, president of the Tahlequah Rock and Mineral Society, said the nonprofit was organized in the ...

Minerals aren’t just in rocks—they’re in your house, your food, even your body! From aluminum cans to toothpaste, and calcium to iron, discover how minerals shape the world around us and why they’re ...

Discover how rocks, minerals & the rock cycle change your world. Join the Science Trek team to explore rocks and minerals! Discover how the Earth formed, the three types of rocks, the rock cycle, and ...

A new study shows the monument’s most exotic stones did not arrive by chance but were instead deliberately selected and ...

Monterey >> Randy Harris began his hobby as a rock trader when he would visit his grandfather in Oregon as a child. His grandfather had a nice collection and they would look at rocks together, Harris ...

Suiseki stones from Japan are arranged as objects of worship. Crystals within the Manhattan schist link urban modernity to ...

An "amazing" new type of mineral has been discovered by scientists analysing a rock mined in Cornwall about 220 years ago. The dark green mineral has been named kernowite after Kernow, the Cornish ...

John Scully’s fascination with rocks started when he was 2 years old picking up quartz in the creek behind his house in Pennsylvania. The fascination, he said, “never really stopped.” Scully had ...

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.

How hard is a diamond? What is the difference between granites and garnets? Minerals are the building blocks of rocks. They are inorganic, crystalline solids with a known chemistry. Examples of ...