Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

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 ...

As a young boy, Dr. James Gebel grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he built his childhood mineral collection of mostly Mexican and Southern Illinois specimens, as well as self-collected wonders of ...

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 ...

All that glitters ... might be rock. Collector Marc Weill (center), with adviser Dennis Tanjeloff (left) and partner Daniel Trinchillo, the "Indiana Jones" of the operation. Together, they've amassed ...

It’s a question posed by a television game show that most adults don’t want to have answered. “Are you smarter than a fifth-grader?” So when Bill Case asks a group of fifth-graders, and accompanying ...

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.

A new LEGO Ideas set is coming to life as fans can leave that dirt behind and pick up some bricks with the LEGO Ideas Mineral Collection. The set features 880 pieces and is designed for adult ...