Though it might not seem obvious at first, gems and minerals play a crucial role in our everyday lives. They can be found in our roads and buildings, in the sunscreen we use to protect ourselves from ...

Four years ago, the Halls of Gems and Minerals at New York’s American Museum of Natural History closed for long-overdue renovations. The cavelike space, deliberately designed to evoke the feeling of ...

If you love things that sparkle with all the colors of the rainbow, glow in the dark, and seem to defy any definition of the term rock, you’ve got to visit the new Halls of Gems and Minerals at the ...

The long running backyard experiment reaches its conclusion as ordinary rocks appear to evolve into gemstone-like formations ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Collectors, sellers, and buyers alike will travel from all over the country to attend this weekend’s East Coast Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show, while for some who live in the region it ...

After a four-year renovation, the 11,000-square-foot Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York will reopen on June 12, among the ...

NEW YORK — They are shiny. Some glow in the dark, and all look downright cool. They are minerals and gems. The American Museum of Natural History has plenty of them. The halls will connect with the ...

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One of the first specimens you see on entering the American Museum of Natural History’s newly designed Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals is 13 feet high. Its concave surface is ...

Whether it’s gemstones, minerals, fossils, rocks, jewelry, beads or lapidary that sparks an interest, the Gem and Mineral Society of the Palm Beaches has been teaching people about the cutting, ...

Rocks have always been in the foundation of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. John Campion’s crystallized gold was one of the first collections on display when the museum opened 125 years ago.

A single crystal from Myanmar became the rarest known mineral, revealing chemistry scientists have never found again.