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 ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Octava Minerals’ rock chip sampling at the Sweeney’s prospect has returned high grades of indium, copper, zinc, silver, tin ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. There would be no fireworks without rocks and minerals. An aerial ...

The acquisition aligns with Bastion’s strategy to target early-stage Australian gold projects and further expand its ...

A.K. Miles of Salem spent summers as a little girl traveling the Pacific Northwest with her grandparents, collecting rocks and helping her great-grandfather cut and polish them in his lapidary shop.

Today 5,000 to 7,000 minerals are formally recognized on earth and every year some new ones are discovered. Most were hidden in rocks for million years, found only at a few sites or small crystals and ...

Standing unsteadily on a ledge high above the Zanskar river, I tried to tell myself it would be all right. After all the person who had brought me there, Phunchok Angchok, was not only standing ...

Rocks aren't alive. Life is. So think of them as separate. Rocks over here; life over there. Then along come Robert Hazen and his colleagues with their study, "Mineral Evolution," published in the ...