A little knowledge of rocks and minerals will help you identify everything from jewelry to fossils. While reading this article may not turn you into a geologist, it should give you the basic ...

It’ll be a snap to identify gemstones once Robert Downs finishes his library of spectral fingerprints for all the Earth’s minerals. Downs is almost halfway there. So far, the associate professor of ...

Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and Idaho National Laboratory. Additional Funding by the Friends of Idaho Public Television and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Science ...

From the hands-on activities to the music playing in the background, the rock was the star of the show at Lake Metroparks’ Rock Around the Park open house. Held at Jordan Creek Park in Concord ...

Today's activities will focus on the physical properties of minerals and you will use physical properties to identify 11 common rock-forming and ore minerals. In class you will be using the mineral ...

Beaverton City Library on Thursday, August 8, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The Rice NW Museum of Rocks and Minerals will offer a hands-on class on identifying rocks and minerals. We will walk through the ...

Researchers are developing a handheld instrument, much like a tricorder from the "Star Trek" television show, that will allow almost instant identification of minerals. The pocket-sized instrument ...