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 ...

CHICO — Unique rocks, minerals and fossils were on display this weekend at the 12th annual Rock, Gem and Jewelry Show. Held at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday, the show offered about ...

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 ...

Laura Delano turned a childhood fascination with “rocks” into a business that promotes shows around the country that celebrate the earth’s bounty like this weekend’s East Coast Gem, Mineral and Fossil ...

The Rock and Gem Book is packed full of photos of natural wonders, including rocks, minerals, gems, shells and fossils. This children's encyclopedia displays more than 1,200 full-color specimens, from ...

The Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, set to open Dec. 12, was founded by Larry Stifler and Mary McFadden, a Massachusetts couple who began coming to western Maine in the 1970s, became enamored of the ...

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 ...

One of the most spectacular things about Central Washington is its geology. We’ve got everything from a sleeping volcano called Mount Adams, to basalt columns made of solidified lava, to Union Gap and ...

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.