Test your rock & mineral smarts—are you a Rock Star? Think you know rocks and minerals? Take the Science Trek quiz! Test your smarts on gold, salt, Earth’s oldest rocks, gemstones on Mars, and the ...

There would be no bright and colorful fireworks without rocks and minerals. A firework is produced by launching a shell containing fuel and a color mix high into the air, where it explodes. This ...

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 ...

Inside an Oak Ridge School classroom, over a dozen students passed a small piece of quartz to one another. The students ...

A rocky outcrop in a remote corner of northern Quebec appears serene in its eerie isolation on the eastern shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay. But over the past two decades, this exposed remnant of ancient ...

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI -- Stepping into Rockhound Rock Shop, visitors are transported to another world. There’s a seemingly never-ending cascade of rooms in the Galesburg shop, each with a different ...

Native Spirit Gems & Jewelry, Tallahassee’s go-to destination for unique and beautiful rocks, crystals and minerals, is ...

The Kalamazoo Rock, Gem, Fossil, and Mineral show is returning to the Kalamazoo County Expo Center for a 65th year!

Deondre Smith Jr., 9, and his brother Devonne, 7, searched for their favorite rock Friday among thousands for sale at the opening day of the Roxy Ann Gem & Mineral Show in southern Oregon’s Central ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in February 2021. Tucson's massive Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase recently came to a close, but that doesn't mean the shopping for rocks, gems and ...