The College of Science weekly video series, Mineral Monday, explores the many minerals, fossils and historical objects on display at the W.M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum, as told ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To El Albani, a geochemist, the pasta-shaped component looks like the ...

Nature has used 21 different ways over the last 4.5 billion years to create pyrite (aka Fool’s Gold) -- the mineral world’s champion of diverse origins. Pyrite forms at high temperature and low, with ...

For over 300 million years, the ammonites ruled the prehistoric seas. Finding an ammonite fossil isn’t particularly rare ...

Iron pyrite — also known as fool’s gold — may be worthless to treasure hunters, but it could become a bonanza to the solar industry. The mineral, among the most abundant in the earth’s crust, is ...

The first week of spring brings a variety of events to the area, from a forum on homelessness, to a gem and mineral show, to a variety of events featuring talented students. Loveland Mayor Cecil ...

Drilling at Loyal Metals’ Highway Reward copper-gold mine in Queensland is off to a rousing start with the first hole ...

There’s gold in them thar Pocono hills. Fool’s gold, that is. And it’s going to cost the state Department of Transportation more money to remove the worthless, potentially dangerous sulfuric rock to ...