Collectively, the mineral specimens in the display contain the 65 different elements that power the average cellphone. (By comparison, the entire human body is composed of only 24 different elements.) ...

Geologists discover three unique new minerals at Cookes Peak, New Mexico: raydemarkite, virgilluethite, and stunorthropite.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The Tucson Gem, Mineral and Fossil Showcase is back in town to bring some of the rarest gem, jewelry and mineral specimens on Earth. Running all the way from Saturday, Jan ...

The mineral exhibit will contain specimens from across the world and is intended for mineral experts and novices alike. Visitors will be able to see this example of opal in its natural form. Robin ...

Meet kyawthuite, a mineral so rare that it exists in just one known specimen, a stunning gemstone unearthed near Mogok, ...

A mineral specimen that's been in the Natural History Museum collection for 175 years has turned out to also be a dinosaur egg. It may hold clues as to how the biggest dinosaurs ever to exist would ...

Mineral collecting on the surface dumps of the Rowley Mine, with permission of the lease holders, has yielded micromount specimens with some thumbnail-sized crystallizations.

"These are natural mineral specimens. We've sold to most of the major museums across the world," Turner said. Turner says he keeps coming to Tucson out of passion always learning something new.

There's a mineral so rare that only one specimen of it has ever been found in the entire world. It's called kyawthuite (cha-too-ite), a tiny, tawny-hued grain weighing just a third of a gram (1.61 ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Developing Crystallized Mineral Specimens ” in SA Supplements Vol. 84 No. 2179supp (October 1917), p. 218 doi:10.1038 ...