MANSFIELD - Local Mansfield Memorial Museum curator Scott Schaut said it's amazing the way things come back to museums including a mineral collection with aragonite, gypsum and marble. Last Saturday, ...

I have spent years, and quite a bit of money, building my collection to what it is today. Each time I visited a natural history museum as a kid, I spent my time in the mineral and fossil halls. I ...

The James Madison University Mineral Museum is re-opening its doors and offering the public a first look at the extraordinary collection of mineral specimens in the Peter L. Via Collection. Very few ...

The William & Mary Department of Geology has acquired a world-class mineral collection that geologists say will be a valuable resource in the department for many years. Professor Brent Owens of the ...

Modern mineral collecting has its roots in the 16th century. Georgius Agricola (1494-1555), a German scientist and father of mineralogy and mineral collecting, published “De Re Metallica,” a treatise ...

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 ...

This weekend’s East Coast Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show on the grounds of the Eastern States Exposition offers something for everyone — from the avid collector to those who attend the show to purchase ...

Bruce Dice, a 1948 Calvin alumnus and geologist from Houston, Texas, was an avid rock and mineral collector for as long as he could remember. From childhood digging in his backyard, to spelunking in ...

The Franklin–Sterling Hill area of New Jersey is home to a prized mineral deposit that has fascinated geochemists and collectors for decades—not least because many of the minerals are vibrantly ...