Mineral Monday is a weekly video series exploring the many amazing minerals, fossils, and historic objects on display at the W.M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum as told by museum ...

Geologists do it according to the Mohs Scale of Hardness. There. That’s your “hardness” joke for the post. Now down to business, with the hardest (and softest) scale there is. In 1812, people had just ...

Gold hunters in southern Russia might have been disappointed to learn that the speckled, yellow rock they uncovered was not a sizeable pebble of valuable metal. Instead, it was a rare piece of ...