There are more than 250,000 objects in the Minnesota Historical Society Collection. Many have never been displayed before and ...

Many Baby Boomers tend to keep certain items on display that younger generations might find outdated or unnecessary. These ...

A self-described “keeper of objects,” University of Chicago Prof. Theaster Gates brings together materials collected over his artistic career in his first solo exhibition in his hometown of Chicago.

Idaho Collects,” an exhibition featuring artworks drawn from private collections around the region, will open at the Sun ...

The 45th annual New Mexico Mineral Symposium took place in Socorro earlier this month, Nov. 7-9. The New Mexico Bureau of ...

Mineral, gem and rock fans of all ages flocked to the Santa Cruz Mineral and Gem Society’s annual Rockin’ Holiday Sale at the ...

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 ...

A Joplin native’s lifelong collection of minerals and rocks has been donated to the Joplin History & Mineral Museum, expanding the pieces that can be displayed and studied. Ava Gager Smith, a 1957 ...

Uganda’s reliance on foreign funding for project execution and development is not getting any better at a time when direct donor budget support is increasingly dwindling, Business Outlook can reveal. ...

Wisconsin moonstones are shimmering blue feldspars created 1.5 billion years ago by volcanic activity. The only place where Wisconsin moonstones are found is in a small niche of Marathon County.

The mineral enthusiast caused “reckless damage” when she went hunting for rocks to break open. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website ...

A mineral collector has been convicted of damaging a site in Dumfries and Galloway by using a hammer to break rocks to collect rare minerals to sell. In the first conviction of its kind in Scotland, ...