The A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum (Museum) will manage Michigan Tech's mineral collection (Collection) to actively and conscientiously enhance its quality, depth, breadth, and usefulness by accessioning ...

Minerals like topaz, calcite and quartz are attracting collectors looking for a more affordable and less saturated market. By Shivani Vora Jewelry and art have long captivated both collectors and the ...

I have spent years, and quite a bit of money, building my collection to what it is today. Each time I visited a natural history museum as a kid, I spent my time in the mineral and fossil halls. I ...

MANSFIELD - Local Mansfield Memorial Museum curator Scott Schaut said it's amazing the way things come back to museums including a mineral collection with aragonite, gypsum and marble. Last Saturday, ...

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 James Madison University Mineral Museum is re-opening its doors and offering the public a first look at the extraordinary collection of mineral specimens in the Peter L. Via Collection. Very few ...

At first glance, the word mineral invokes an image associated with mining, heavy machinery and digging for natural resources beneath the Earth’s surface. This evokes images associated with dark mines, ...

For a few weeks every winter, Tucson briefly goes rock crazy. In 1955, local gem-and-mineral enthusiasts began hosting a get-together, an event that’s since become something much more commercial, and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Linda Castro, left, assistant policy director of CalWild, with her dog Cash, and Gregor Losson, an advocate for rock and mineral ...