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 ...

Don’t miss the season finale of the National Museum of Natural History’s popular YouTube series, the “Doctor Is In.” Anna Torres Smithsonian Geologist Liz Cottrell answers your questions in the ...

It’ll be a snap to identify gemstones once Robert Downs finishes his library of spectral fingerprints for all the Earth’s minerals. Downs is almost halfway there. So far, the associate professor of ...

Hello Beavertonians! On Thursday, Aug. 8, the Beaverton City Library will bring in a local museum curator to teach attendees how to identify rocks and minerals. Lara O'Dwyer Brown, curator of the Rice ...

Beaverton City Library on Thursday, August 8, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The Rice NW Museum of Rocks and Minerals will offer a hands-on class on identifying rocks and minerals. We will walk through the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Swiss naturalist and physician Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Minerals are the non-living building blocks of the natural world ...

You hear complaints about what our government bureaus produce, but I have evidence of the contrary: a twelve-hundred-page book produced by the U.S. Department of The Interior in 1968 titled, “A ...

When news broke late last month that an unidentified bright blue mineral had been found in Adventure Mining Company’s historic Upper Peninsula copper mine, many people made speculations on social ...