There are about 6,000 different types of minerals, but only a couple hundred are gemstones. Learn more about these special minerals and how someone like you can find your own gemstone. Science Trek is ...

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.

Unearthed: Raw Beauty showcases rare, ancient gems and minerals from around the world at the Natural History Museum through ...

If you love things that sparkle with all the colors of the rainbow, glow in the dark, and seem to defy any definition of the term rock, you’ve got to visit the new Halls of Gems and Minerals at the ...

CHICO — Unique rocks, minerals and fossils were on display this weekend at the 12th annual Rock, Gem and Jewelry Show. Held at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday, the show offered about ...

After a four-year renovation, the 11,000-square-foot Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York will reopen on June 12, among the ...

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One of the first specimens you see on entering the American Museum of Natural History’s newly designed Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals is 13 feet high. Its concave surface is ...

Whether it’s gemstones, minerals, fossils, rocks, jewelry, beads or lapidary that sparks an interest, the Gem and Mineral Society of the Palm Beaches has been teaching people about the cutting, ...

Laura Delano turned a childhood fascination with “rocks” into a business that promotes shows around the country that celebrate the earth’s bounty like this weekend’s East Coast Gem, Mineral and Fossil ...

A.K. Miles of Salem spent summers as a little girl traveling the Pacific Northwest with her grandparents, collecting rocks and helping her great-grandfather cut and polish them in his lapidary shop.