When the boy's mother showed the stone to geologist Patrick Roycroft, he revealed that it was a rare form of quartz.

There are about 6,000 different types of minerals, but only a couple hundred are gemstones. Learn more about these special minerals and how someone like you can find your own gemstone. Science Trek is ...

As global competition for rare earths intensifies, Greenland’s reserves are likely to remain central to strategic discussions ...

REEs such as niobium, tantalum and ytterbium have been discovered in igneous rock layers – similar to the discovery (and ...

Pakistan‘s policy reforms aim to align it with international standards and position itself as a responsible partner in the ...

With rising demand for critical minerals, Pakistan aims to turn “untapped potential into measurable economic and social ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright went to Wyoming last week to cut the ribbon on the first new rare earth mine in the U.S. since the 1950s. Telling the assembled guests and reporters that the “Brook Mine” ...

A Carthage man may have unearthed one of the rarest gemstones in the world — not in a mine, but in his own front yard. Robert Lewis Jr. says he found an unusual black rock just steps from his home ...

Why weren’t the geologists hungry? Because they’d lost their apatite. Haha! Now you have the perfect ice-breaker for the least jaded event of the season: The Contra Costa Mineral & Gem Society’s ...

Pakistan is leveraging its untapped mineral and gemstone resources through reforms and PMIF26 to attract global investment, ...