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PALETTE FOR THE PAINTED DESERT
A geologist once described the Painted Desert as a \"sedimentary circus.\"
STONES for Love
What to Give to those Special in Your Life
WRAPPED WITH wire
Expert Advice for Getting Started
THE PERFECT 640
As a renaissance in jewelry and lapidary work has been taking place, it's a perfect time to focus on faceting.
BRACHIOPODS: SEASHELLS OF THE ANCIENT SEA FLOOR
Brachiopods are one of the most common and recognizable fossils found around the world.
HEMIMORPHITE
Hemimorphite can be found all around the world predominantly surrounding zinc mines.
DIG IT!
Collecting Beyond the Rock Shop
Family Travel
Unearth the Unexpected at Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Preserve
MINING New Jersey
The History of the Franklin & Sterling Hill Mines
FOR THE Love OF Sand! Become a Psammophile!
While rock and mineral collectors often seek the biggest crystal ever, true wonders exist at the microscopic level.
Pink Opal
For many years, the only deposit of pink opal was found in Peru. Then in 2011, Glenn Archer of Australian Outback Mining discovered a new find in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, just east of the coastal town of Carnarvon.
The Rumbling, Bone-Tumbling
"Coo" of T. Rex
Top 10 Magenta Rocks
Lapidary Materials to Celebrate the Pantone Color of the Year
SERENDIPITY EQUALS A MONTANA AGATE
Serendipity is having an apparent aptitude for making discoveries accidentally.
The LA BREA TAR PITS: A Journey to the Ice Age
Los Angeles is the land of palm trees, movie stars, Malibu and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
"Lucky 13"-A New Find of Purple Apatite at Maine's Pulsifer Quarry
A patite is a favorite collector's mineral with a dizzying array of beautiful colors and interesting crystal habits.
Gold & the Hard Rock Summit Show
The Hard Rock Summit Show has become the top fall mineral show in Denver around which other shows have clustered.
ICELAND SPAR: THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
In Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, author Lewis Carroll used the title phrase as a metaphor for peering into a world where nothing was quite what it seemed. When it came to understanding the mysterious nature of light, the \"looking glass\" for early scientists was optical calcite or Iceland spar.
Raised in a ROCK SHOP
The Influence of Rock Collecting & Lapidary While Growing Up
EXPLORING Fantastic Cavems, Drive-Through Cave
Plus a Bucket List of Caves for the Physically Challenged
Bye-Bye, Glaciers?
Concerns about the loss of glacial ice vary. Downstream from the Himalayas, one billion people depend on run-off from existing glaciers to fill their rivers and meet their water supplies.
To Find the Beginnings of Complex Life on Earth
Search Life Living Today!
Dinosaur Mummies
Perhaps More Common Than Imagined?
A New Tale for the Ankylosaur Tail Club
They weren't just for clobbering T. rex, after all!
Filling Earth's Oceans with Water
One Meteorite at a Time, Per One Smoking Gun
Ichthyosaur Birthing Resembled that of Gray Whales
Prepare for a New Era of Boots-on-the-Ground Exploration
The Magnetic Field of Mars
Life Would Have Depended on It
Geoengineering Earth's Oceans
From Science Fiction to Science Fact
Leaving Earth Behind
A Record Number of Rockets Take off from Earth in 2022
Concrete for the Ages
What the Romans Knew that We Might Learn