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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Swiss naturalist and physician Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus ...

You hear complaints about what our government bureaus produce, but I have evidence of the contrary: a twelve-hundred-page book produced by the U.S. Department of The Interior in 1968 titled, “A ...

When news broke late last month that an unidentified bright blue mineral had been found in Adventure Mining Company’s historic Upper Peninsula copper mine, many people made speculations on social ...

It’s amazing what cleaning your glasses can reveal. A mineral-scouting instrument developed at Arizona State University (ASU) has found an outcrop of rock rich in carbonate minerals in the Columbia ...

WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Artificial intelligence is helping scientists to identify minerals within rocks in Mars studied by the Perseverance rover. Some scientists dream of exploring planets with 'smart ...