Last Tuesday, six members of the Idaho Falls Gem and Mineral Society (IFG&MS) placed corner posts marking each corner of the ...

Missouri state park is in the St. Francois Mountains and offers trails, camping, fishing and history in the Ozarks.

The Earth is a wondrous place, but some of the most stunning things sometimes come from off-world. Take, for example, ...

At Crater of Diamonds State Park, travelers from around the world arrive with shovels, wagons and the hope of striking gold -- or better yet, diamonds. Tucked away in Murfreesboro, this 37.5-acre park ...

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 ...

How do rocks change over time? Idaho's geology makes it a special place for finding many different kinds of rocks and minerals. Minerals are made from 92 chemical elements that join together in many ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some people have rocks in their head. Others have hearts of stone. And then there is a recent visitor to Ventura, a man of Baby Boomer age and reportedly from New York, who was caught on video proving ...

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.