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 ...

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Before the federal government shut down on Wednesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said it would team up with Mountain ...

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 ...

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 ...

A spelunker licks a salt rock in the Malham cave inside Mount Sodom, located at the southern part of the Dead Sea in Israel. British-Polish geologist Jan Zalasiewicz won the Ig Noble Prize in the ...