And then Larson said his club just found a whole bunch of these, Schaut said. Wednesday, Larson brought a collection of about 100 minerals ... hundred botanical specimens for the national ...

In 1883 an agate specimen was registered in the Natural History Museum’s Mineralogy Collection. Collected in central ... activity with huge lava flows that covered the whole area.” “In terms of ...

What's not to like about mineral specimens? They sparkle ... There's a single aquamarine in Marc's collection that, as a single crystal, is worth about $150,000; on a matrix, it would be worth ...

And taking a close look at the atomic elements and structures present in minerals can account for their blue hues. The vibrant stripes on this mandarinfish specimen ... turn the whole cake blue ...

Together, they've amassed a collection of more than 400 top mineral specimens. This super-rare gem-blue tourmaline specimen was nicknamed "the ship," because its huge crystals jut out like the ...

Georgiadis originally paid $70,000 for the collection of 115 minerals. Today it contains more than 500 specimens, and is appraised at $514,000. Georgiadis says he decided to donate the collection to ...

With her husband, Jim Spann, she has built a collection of 11,500 mineral specimens, many on loan to major museums – including David Friend Hall, a spectacular new mineral gallery on the third ...

A collection ... s Mineral Museum. The Richard F. West Meteorite Collection was unveiled on Friday and includes everything from primitive chondrites and dense iron-nickel specimens to rare ...

For years, the show has featured a one-person exhibit of specimens ... for minerals. I’ve been collecting now for about 58 years and really got interested in building a large mineral collection ...

Cornwall's mining and mineral wealth triggered the development ... rich copper lodes in Gwennap so the Rashleigh collection is very rich in specimens from this area. His near complete, beautifully ...

THE geological survey of Canada, under the direction of Mr. Selwyn, F.R.S., has placed in the Philadelphia Exhibition a collection of minerals and rock specimens of much interest, as they very ...

What research can be done into the practice of how to ethically decolonise rock and mineral collections ... associated with the collection only reference descriptions, scientific and curatorial ...