Collecting rocks and minerals has a long history. Collections were sometimes an obsession, sometimes an investment, a tool to teach geology, or just a leisure-time activity. The Italian collectors ...

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 ...

Deondre Smith Jr., 9, and his brother Devonne, 7, searched for their favorite rock Friday among thousands for sale at the opening day of the Roxy Ann Gem & Mineral Show in southern Oregon’s Central ...

The William & Mary Department of Geology has acquired a world-class mineral collection that geologists say will be a valuable resource in the department for many years. Professor Brent Owens of the ...

The Ishpeming Rock and Mineral Club is changing their meeting from March 15, 2026 to Sunday, March 22, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. at the Cliff Shaft Mining Museum, 501 W. Euclid St., in Ishpeming. The change ...

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - When you think of Wheaton College, here's what probably doesn't come to mind: the geology department's rock and mineral collection. In the lower level of the Meyer Science Center ...

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 ...

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.