Many minerals form beautiful crystals, but the most prized of all are gemstones. Uncut gems often look fairly ordinary–like rocks. It's only when they are cut and polished that they obtain the ...

Let’s explore the deadliest crystals, minerals, and gemstones that, despite their dazzling appearances, pack a dangerous punch. 1. Arsenopyrite At first glance, arsenopyrite looks like a shiny, ...

There are thousands of different minerals on Earth, but the discovery of a particular mineral is rather unique. After all, it ...

Once on the fire escape, the pair tied a rope to a pillar above one of the windows in the J.P. Morgan Hall of Gems and Minerals, says Smithsonian Magazine. Using the rope, one of the thieves ...

You’ll find plenty of rocks, gems and fossils on display and for sale Friday through Sunday at the 39th annual Cobb County Gem & Mineral Society Show.

Take a walk down the mineralogy collection of any good natural history museum and your face will be aglow with the sparkle of minerals, crystals, and gemstones – but what’s the difference ...

Where can you find beautiful one of a kind jewelry, gemstones, crystals and fossils, all under the same roof? At the Cobb ...

Students have shunned mining and mineral processing engineering courses ... In 2021, Kenya launched the Voi Gemology Centre, a gemstone processing facility, through which the government hoped ...

Maine is also now home to a cosmically important gem and mineral museum. Featuring earth’s largest collection of Mars meteorites, along with a third of all moon rocks extant on our planet ...

The Gem and Mineral Club of Scarborough (GMCS) is a hobby club founded in 1963 and incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in 1979. Our aims, objectives and purpose are to: * Encourage and ...

Crystals and gemstones can be more than just beautiful—they can be deadly. Minerals like arsenopyrite, cinnabar, galena, and torbernite carry toxic substances like arsenic, mercury, lead ...