At rock and mineral shows, hobbyists and business owners can share and sell one-of-a-kind products as well as disseminate knowledge about rock collecting and jewelry making. At the 16th annual Tyson ...

Quartzsite’s claim to fame is reflected in its name. The small town near the California state line could be considered the territorial capital for rock hounds, especially during gem- and mineral-show ...

The rocks in question, quartzite, were discovered by researchers at Columbia University, thanks to a grant from the National Geographic Society, Fox News reported. They had heard about them from a ...

A team of geologists at the University of Texas suggests that a collection of smooth, red quartzite cobbles, found in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming, was deposited there by dinosaurs coming from ...

Living under a translucent rock can be quite comfortable -- if you're a moss in the Mojave Desert. A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, found that some mosses in the ...