A new LEGO Ideas set is coming to life as fans can leave that dirt behind and pick up some bricks with the LEGO Ideas Mineral Collection. The set features 880 pieces and is designed for adult ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visitors to the Perot Museum this week are among the first people in the world to lay eyes on a mineral that has a “cult-like following in the mineral collecting community,” according to a press ...

Dr. Joan Massagué, Director of the Sloan Kettering Institute and Chief Scientific Officer for MSK, in his study, which houses his mineral collection. Along with their alluring beauty, minerals — like ...

At first glance, the word mineral invokes an image associated with mining, heavy machinery and digging for natural resources beneath the Earth’s surface. This evokes images associated with dark mines, ...

From an early age, Charles Darwin collected minerals even if, as he himself laments, 'I continued collecting minerals with much zeal, but quite unscientifically--all that I cared about was a new-named ...

A $7 million private collection of hundreds of rare mineral specimens has been donated to the UA's Science Center, and some of the most striking pieces will be publicly unveiled during a special ...

A warning has been issued over illegal mineral collection after a woman was convicted of using a hammer to break rocks to collect rare specimens to sell. At Paisley Sheriff Court earlier this year, ...

More people have need for minerals and gems than you might think. Home decorating projects, an interest in the scientific properties or histories of minerals, a love for beautiful jewelry or a passion ...

For a few weeks every winter, Tucson briefly goes rock crazy. In 1955, local gem-and-mineral enthusiasts began hosting a get-together, an event that’s since become something much more commercial, and ...