The miners were focused on extracting valuable minerals when they noticed a glimmer of violet in the dark, rocky walls. According to TheFancyNews, as they carefully removed layers of rock ...

Large crystals found in geodes and other rocks are relatively rare. Pink ChalcedonyA pink chalcedony shows off its beauty. Chalcedonies include many types of cryptocrystalline quartz gems and ...

Deep beneath the red soils of Western Australia, an ancient secret lay locked in stone. And through the stubborn durability ...

The information comes from tiny zircon crystals found inside the rocks. Unusual small stones on a beach in Iceland may help tell the story of the Roman Empire’s demise. A team of researchers ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has ...

Evidence for the use of rock crystal - a rare type of perfectly transparent quartz which forms in large hexagonal gems - has occasionally been found at prehistoric sites in the British Isles, but ...