Collecting rocks and minerals has a long history. Collections were sometimes an obsession, sometimes an investment, a tool to teach geology, or just a leisure-time activity. The Italian collectors ...

Ohio hides a small museum where crystals, fossils, glowing minerals, and quirky surprises make geology feel unexpectedly fun.

Stefan Nicolescu, collections manager at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History looks at Gail and Jim Spann’s collection of gemstones in Rockwall. Photo by ALLISON SLOMOWITZ - special contributor ...

The Science Education Center houses thousands of rock and mineral samples in what is known as "The Rock & Mineral Room." The entire collection can be viewed by clicking on each of the virtual drawers ...

A visitor browses display cases in the basement of the Rice Museum. After parking in the front yard, and paying admission in the garage, you walk in through a door near the living room and step into ...

A Joplin native’s lifelong collection of minerals and rocks has been donated to the Joplin History & Mineral Museum, expanding the pieces that can be displayed and studied. Ava Gager Smith, a 1957 ...

One of the mining tunnels available to tour at the Sterling Hill Mining Museum. Creative Commons An exhibit inside the Sterling Hill Mining Museum. Creative Commons In a New Jersey mine spanning 2,670 ...

THE geological survey of Canada, under the direction of Mr. Selwyn, F.R.S., has placed in the Philadelphia Exhibition a collection of minerals and rock specimens of much interest, as they very fairly ...