One of the mining tunnels available to tour at the Sterling Hill Mining Museum. Creative Commons An exhibit inside the Sterling Hill Mining Museum. Creative Commons In a New Jersey mine spanning 2,670 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Collecting rocks and minerals has a long history. Collections ...

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - When you think of Wheaton College, here's what probably doesn't come to mind: the geology department's rock and mineral collection. In the lower level of the Meyer Science Center ...

SAS CEO Jim Goodnight has amassed a collection of nearly 300 rocks and minerals from all over the world, everything from an amethyst crystal from North Carolina to a topaz from Brazil. While they are ...

A visitor browses display cases in the basement of the Rice Museum. After parking in the front yard, and paying admission in the garage, you walk in through a door near the living room and step into ...

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.