Criminal investigation into allegations of stolen rock collection closed. Based on the inquiry%2C an AG report said there was no evidence the collection was stolen. Earlier this year state lawmakers ...

You might say that Linden Hall rocks. It all began with some old, dirty rocks stored away in a box in the school archives. They had been moved all over the Lititz private school for girls through the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

So how many minerals do you think exist in our world, or better yet, in our earth’s crust? All rocks are made up of one or more minerals, and minerals occur within veins cutting through rocks. They ...

THE geological survey of Canada, under the direction of Mr. Selwyn, F.R.S., has placed in the Philadelphia Exhibition a collection of minerals and rock specimens of much interest, as they very fairly ...

From an early age, Charles Darwin collected minerals even if, as he himself laments, 'I continued collecting minerals with much zeal, but quite unscientifically--all that I cared about was a new-named ...

As in years past, jewelry and other merchandise made from rocks and minerals will be available for sale at this year’s show. These augite crystals are from Oahu. In the rest of the world they are much ...