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 ...

It’ll be a snap to identify gemstones once Robert Downs finishes his library of spectral fingerprints for all the Earth’s minerals. Downs is almost halfway there. So far, the associate professor of ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Minerals are the non-living building blocks of the natural world ...

Hello Beavertonians! On Thursday, Aug. 8, the Beaverton City Library will bring in a local museum curator to teach attendees how to identify rocks and minerals. Lara O'Dwyer Brown, curator of the Rice ...

Today's activities will focus on the physical properties of minerals and you will use physical properties to identify 11 common rock-forming and ore minerals. In class you will be using the mineral ...

You hear complaints about what our government bureaus produce, but I have evidence of the contrary: a twelve-hundred-page book produced by the U.S. Department of The Interior in 1968 titled, “A ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Artificial intelligence is helping scientists to identify minerals within rocks in Mars studied by the Perseverance rover. Some scientists dream of exploring planets with 'smart ...