In 1839, German mineralogist Gustav Rose picked up a strange, lustrous crystal in Russia’s Ural Mountains and named it after ...

Mineralogist Liz Arredondo studies the water hidden inside of minerals. Mineralogist Liz Arredondo studies rocks and minerals to learn about the history of the Earth. She also studies the water hidden ...

If every mineral tells a story, then geologists now have their equivalent of The Arabian Nights. For the first time, scientists have cataloged every different way that every known mineral can form and ...