Rocks and minerals contribute essential raw materials ... The authors think that mineral association analysis will be able to identify locations of as-yet-unknown mineral locations and predict ...

The Museum's Identification service has a Facebook group to help answer your queries on plants, animals, fossils, rocks and minerals found in the British Isles. Found a small black or brown bug in ...

In general, mineral particles are small, having formed within confined areas such as lava flows or between grains of sediments. Large crystals found in geodes and other rocks are relatively rare.