Collecting rocks and minerals has a long history. Collections were sometimes an obsession, sometimes an investment, a tool to teach geology, or just a leisure-time activity. The Italian collectors ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stefan Nicolescu, collections manager at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History looks at Gail and Jim Spann’s collection of gemstones in Rockwall. Photo by ALLISON SLOMOWITZ - special contributor ...

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 Joplin native’s lifelong collection of minerals and rocks has been donated to the Joplin History & Mineral Museum, expanding the pieces that can be displayed and studied. Ava Gager Smith, a 1957 ...