The large annual Denver Gem Show is always held around the second week of September. HISTORY OF THE DENVER GEM, ROCK, MINERAL AND FOSSIL SHOW In the 1950s, six different Denver area gem a ...
Pyrite - (Page)Pyrite is the classic "Fool's Gold". There are other shiny brassy yellow minerals, but Pyrite is by far the most common and the most often mistaken for gold. Whether it is the golden look or som ...
Utah Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Lots of beautiful rocks and minerals come from the state of Utah. Utah covers 54.4 million acres, of which 35 million are owned by the federal government. There are five National Parks and six Nat ...
Tennessee Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Tennessee has more mineral resources than any other state east of the Mississippi, except North Carolina. Limestone and dolomite, bituminous coal, lead, zinc, ball clay, sand and gravel, phosphate, ...
Kentucky Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Kentucky may not have lots of rocks and minerals, but it has lots of fossils. Long ago Kentucky was covered in shallow tropical seas, so brachiopod, coral, sponge, crinoid, trilobite, and nautiloid ...
Kabamba Jasper - (Page)Kabamba Jasper is a lovely green orbicular jasper from Madagascar. Kabamba Jasper is green orbicular rock from the South Africa Rift on the west side of the island of Madagascar. This semi ...
List of Rocks and Minerals - (Page)There are about 5000 identified mineral names, with new ones being added every year, but only about 130 of them are considered "gemstone" minerals. "Gemstones" itself is a subjective term ...
Michigan Rock and Minerals - (Page) Michigan has 1,853 records of mining mines according to the U.S.G.S. Lower Michigan is quite level and not much elevated above the Great Lakes, and is underlain by sedimentary deposits of li ...
Pennsylvania Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Pennsylvania is not rich in rocks and minerals, and not very great for rockhounding. There are very limited public lands, and much of it is hunting grounds. Pennsylvania does not have an ...
Ohio Rocks and Minerals - (Page)In Ohio fossils are abundant, but with one notable exception, gem grade rocks and minerals are rare. The exception is beautiful and colorful Ohio Flint. Flint, a type of chalcedony, is found in Flin ...
Canada Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Collectible rocks and minerals are found in every province and territory in Canada. Canada is the second largest country in the world. It is the world leader in the production of potash and ranks am ...
Kansas Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Sedimentary rocks containing coal, salt, and fossils are under Kansas. The surface is sand and gravel from the erosion of the Rocky Mountains and carried eastward by water. These deposits created th ...