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 ...

The Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountains formed millions of years ago. Within both of them lies a fascinating world of rocks, gemstones, crystals and minerals. Here's how to start identifying them.

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 ...

Swiss naturalist and physician Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim - better known as Paracelsus -was among the first naturalists to study how the fumes, dust and ash found in a ...

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 ...

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 ...