Are diamonds still a girl’s best friend? Not for Quincy native and 1972 Norwell High School graduate Gail Copus Spann, who prefers raw minerals dug out of the earth to cut and polished gemstones. With ...

You don’t have to fight the crowds at the gem show tents to see specimens of gold, azurite, pink morganite, beryl, tourmaline, fluorapatite, babingtonite, wulfenite, bornite and exceedingly rare ...

Criminal investigation into allegations of stolen rock collection closed. Based on the inquiry%2C an AG report said there was no evidence the collection was stolen. Earlier this year state lawmakers ...

WATERLOO — Some people thank their lucky stars for finding a hobby that keeps them busy and engaged. Not Jeff Groff. This life-long rock hunter thanks the Ice Age glaciers that advanced into Iowa ...

The National Museum of Natural History will permanently display the Dom Pedro Aquamarine, which is the largest single piece of cut-gem aquamarine in the world, beginning Dec. 6. It joins an ...

David Dallmeyer shared his knowledge of minerals with students for 38 years as a professor of geology at the University of Georgia. And though he retired, he doesn't intend to stop his educational ...

MANSFIELD - Local Mansfield Memorial Museum curator Scott Schaut said it's amazing the way things come back to museums including a mineral collection with aragonite, gypsum and marble. Last Saturday, ...

The new display at Lepper Library features a collection of “Rocks & Minerals” being shared by Jason Leggett. His collecting began when he was 8 years old when his Great Aunt Ruth Bye piqued his ...

The Mason Valley Gem and Mineral Club moved its Nevada mineral display from the Yerington Branch Library to the Dayton Valley Branch. The display will be up at the Dayton Valley Library into August.

A flawless blue topaz gemstone - the largest of its kind - will be displayed in the Museum's Minerals gallery from 19 October. The Ostro stone is the largest cut topaz to go on show at the Museum.