Minerals are typically formed when molten rock, or magma, cools, or by separating out of mineral-rich water, such as that in underground caverns. In general, mineral particles are small ...

There's a mineral so rare that only one specimen of it has ever been found in the entire world. It's called kyawthuite ( ...

The Science Education Center houses thousands of rock and mineral samples in what is known as "The Rock & Mineral Room." The entire collection can be viewed by clicking on each of the virtual drawers ...

It is exposed at surface with no overburden and is amenable to low cost efficient bulk dredge mining, which will be contained ...

New for the 2024 sale are samples of garnet in the volcanic rock called rhyolite. They are from Garnet Hill near Ely.

Rocks play a vital yet often unrecognized role in the carbon cycle. Through a natural process that has helped regulate ...

Rocks and minerals hold precious clues about how Earth formed and evolved over billions of years — but what is the difference between the two? In essence, rocks are aggregates of two or more minerals.

An "amazing" new type of mineral has been discovered by scientists analysing a rock mined in Cornwall about 220 years ago. The dark green mineral has been named kernowite after Kernow, the Cornish ...

As leaders at the Department of the Interior, we are committed to unleashing the science of today in order to confront the ...

Scientists analyzing the 'Black Beauty' meteorite have discovered a zircon grain that hints at hydrothermal systems on early ...

Together, retired earth science teachers Eugene Genova and Ron Russ travel far and wide searching for fossils.