Archaeologists use obsidian to determine how far people traveled on ancient trade routes across Wyoming. Each obsidian flake ...

Rick Shermerhorn can spend hours slicing and shaping pieces of rocks. When he is finished, those rocks turn into shiny gemstones that become jewelry, wine, bottle stoppers, and even bookmarks.

ANTI-MINING group Alyansa Tigil Mina expressed support on Tuesday for the bill mandating a ban ton he extraction of magnetite sand, also known as black sand. “Alyansa Tigil Mina fully supports the ...

A lawmaker is pushing for a nationwide ban on black sand mining, including dredging activities that may be used as a front for such environmentally destructive operations. Through House Bill (HB) 1843 ...

The woman, identified as Nina Kutina, and her daughters, were found by police during a routine patrol to Ramatirtha Hill, a ...

I’m standing on a manicured lawn, legs hip-width apart as I shimmy my weight forward. I move the putter back a tiny amount ...

Hidden in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula sits a treasure trove of Earth’s most dazzling creations, where even the most ...

Nestled in Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula, where winters are long and the people are hearty, sits a treasure trove that would make Indiana Jones rethink his career choices—the A.E. Seaman Mineral ...

In 79 A.D., Roman author Pliny the Elder marveled at how dust could turn to stone. "Who, indeed," he wrote in Naturalis ...

The 311-gram space rock was discovered in 2023 and is known as the Northwest Africa 16286 meteorite — and based on the decay ...

Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts. One such event contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Giant volcanoes also triggered events that led to the ...

Pillars of hot rock connect moving BLOBS in the deep Earth to giant volcanic eruptions at its surface.