ROCK & GEM FIELD GUIDE: Microcrystalline Quartz

Editor’s Letter

Reading LA Sokolowski’s story about digging for fossils

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New Composition

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Seeking a Meteorite? Turn to AI!

If you wish to find a meteorite, turn

Why the Extreme Damage from the Turkish Earthquake?

An Unfortunate Confluence of Many Factors

How Earth’s Core Lost Its Spin

While Earth Spins Around as Usual, the Core has Slowed!

Earth Dodges a Bullet

A Close Call with a Near-Earth Object Spotted by an Amateur

Medieval Times?

Head-butting Trilobites!

Tropical Rivers Muddied by Illegal Mining

Satellite Images Reveal the Impact and the Damage

Goodbye to the Great Salt Lake?

Say It Ain’t So, Joe!

Connecting the Dots

Seismologists Reveal a “Magmatic Web” among Hawaiian Volcanoes

How Rock Weathering Influences Earth’s “Thermostat”

Earth is unique within our solar system. Among

Just as Today with Crucial Economic Minerals,

Supply Chains Have Always Mattered!

Las Choyas GEODES 101

An iron oxide mineral provides an interesting pattern

FOR THE Love OF Sand!

Become a Psammophile!

MINING New Jersey

The History of the Franklin & Sterling Hill Mines

Family Travel: Unearth the Unexpected at Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Preserve

This Eldredgeops rana was prepped and photographed by

A WHIMSICAL HOLE PAT TERN

Most of the past examples of cabs that

Dig It!

Collecting Beyond the Rock Shop

HEMIMORPHITE

Hemimorphite can be found all around the world

BRACHIOPODS: SEA SHELLS OF THE ANCIENT SEA FLOOR

Natural cluster of Brachiopods from St. Leon, Indiana.

THE PERFEC T 640

As arenaissance in jewelry and lapidary work has

WR APPED WITH Wire

Expert Advice for Getting Started

STONES for Love

What to Give to those Special in Your Life

PALETTE FOR THE PAINTED DESERT

Artist Pamela Iris Harden used acrylics to capture

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The Tucson Gem & Mineral Show is the

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