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July 1, 2023

Photo By Cosmopolitan UK, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84773232 This weekend international pop star Taylor Swift is playing two concert dates Read more...

May 28, 2023

Fluorite - the most colorful mineral in the world! And it fluoresces under UV light, too!

January 14, 2023

The other night, I was discussing Eddie Murphy with a friend. Murphy, whose career has been up and down over Read more...

January 12, 2023

Everybody loves the color purple, a color has an old association with royalty.  The dye known Tyrian purple was a Read more...

December 13, 2022

Calcite and celestite crystals from Ohio If you live in Ohio and want to get rich finding Emeralds then forget Read more...

October 1, 2022

Jade is a beautiful and highly desirable material. It's valued for the fabulous and magnificent works of art that are Read more...

August 17, 2022

Herkimer County, lying north of the Mohawk river in upstate New York, is known for two things: being the one Read more...

August 11, 2022

Of all the variety of minerals and crystals, perhaps the most beloved and widely collected is quartz. Named from the Read more...

August 5, 2022

In northeastern Arizona lies a region named El Desierto Pintado or The Painted Desert by Spanish explorers. In its midst Read more...

July 28, 2022

Located in east-central near the town of Irvine is Knob's Region, a "u" shaped arc extending for nearly 230 miles Read more...