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​The Denver Gem and Mineral Show - (Post)
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 ...
Collecting Fluorescent Minerals - (Post)For many rock collectors it is not about beauty, or rarity, or location. Fluorescence is about how that rock or mineral looks under a UV light. Some ordinary and often ugly rocks ...
Minerals and Crystals - (Page)Learn about the hundreds of natural minerals and crystals! What is a mineral specimen? I think the best-kept secret in the rockshop world is mineral specimens. The average person has probably never ...
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 ...
Mexico Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Mexico is another country rich in rock and mineral resources. Unfortunately a lot of those resources remain unexplored. There is a great Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, which crosses the entire count ...
Glossary of Rock and Mineral Terms - (Page)What do the words used to describe rocks and mineral mean? Everybody loves the beauty of natural rocks and minerals. However, not everybody knows the meaning of all the words or terms used in the ro ...
Wisconsin Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Wisconsin is one of the best states in the U.S. for finding a variety of rocks, crystals and minerals. Wisconsin is a rolling plain laid down on sedimentary rocks and broken in places by uplifted ig ...
Maine Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Maine is an excellent state for rock and mineral collecting! The northern part of Maine is hilly and often swampy, the southern part is rolling uplands broken by hills, isolated mountains and valley ...
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 ...
Peru Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Peru is one of the leading producers of copper, gold, lead and silver. Today, Peru is the largest gold producer in Latin America, and the sixth-largest worldwide, generating billions of dollars in ...
Florida Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Florida is not really known for good cutting or lapidary material. But Florida does have some cool rocks and minerals. Primarily Florida is covered with sedimentary rocks: limestone or calcite and ...
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 ...