he started to collect minerals in the 1760s and continued until his death in 1811. This collecting activity coincided with the mining of particularly rich copper lodes in Gwennap so the Rashleigh ...

Mineral resident Michael Dunn collected his first fossil at the bottom of Lake Ontario when he was 13-years-old. Little by ...

Take a walk down the mineralogy collection of any good natural history museum and your face will be aglow with the sparkle of minerals, crystals, and gemstones – but what’s the difference ...

Doors will open at 1 p.m. to allow members and visitors time to bid on silent auction specimens and to view the club’s mineral collection.

New research shows that that less than 3% of all minerals are named after women, and progress has stalled since 1985.

A new mineral discovered in an abandoned gold mine in Hungary has been named kanatzidisite in honor of Greek scientist ...

The Richard F. West Meteorite Collection was unveiled on Friday at JMU and includes everything from primitive chondrites to ...

In comparison to some of Vollebak’s complex engineering-based projects, the ‘Mineral’ collection is defined by its relative ease – each garment is simply left to rest in a bath of each mineral, making ...