Have you ever walked by a river and wondered if there might be valuable gems hidden beneath the water? You’d be surprised! In ...

While research has been done on modern day minerals and the mining practices involved, Burrington was interested in understanding when the United States began sourcing materials for computers. “It’s ...

Falcon Gold Corp. (TSXV: FG) (FSE: 3FA) (OTC Pink: FGLDF) ("Falcon" or the "Company") is pleased to report results from its ...

Located in southern New Mexico, this state park is brimming with rocks, geodes, and colorful minerals that visitors can dig for to their heart's content.

Quartz, a silica mineral, is the second most common mineral in the earth’s crust. It commonly is found as a white “rock” known as vein quartz. Quartz has a harness of 7.0, easily scratching ...

Quartz might help solve a mystery as to why Earth's continents repeatedly deform in some areas but not others, scientists find. Areas loaded with the common fragile mineral apparently make up ...

But Arkansas is also home to the Arkansas state mineral: quartz. A seemingly inexhaustible supply of the six-sided crystals, many of them tap-water clear, often appearing as clusters, occurs in ...

This article discusses the characterization of the microstructure in a fine-grained, deformed quartz rock using Symmetry at speeds approaching 1000 pps. Experimental Method and Results. A polished ...