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 ...

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

Thundereggs look like regular rocks from the outside, but contain intricate and colorful mineral patterns inside — often made ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The phrase “eat dirt” has never been complimentary, but there sure are some tasty-looking rocks at the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum on Washington Street. The museum’s “Banquet of Rocks” display ...

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 ...

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 ...