The Gem and Mineral Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Solano County McCormack Hall, 900 ...

The event has something for the entire family.

Wire wrapping, geode cracking, and a collection of shiny rocks and gems will be on display for all to see at the 45th annual Gem and Mineral Show. The Indian Mounds Rock and Mineral Club will have ...

Geodes tend to be more rounded than the rocks surrounding them. They are also harder, because the minerals within make geodes harder than the rock they are encased in. Geodes are usually spheroidal, ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - If you’re looking for something solid to do this weekend, well we have something for you. It doesn’t get much more solid than the East Texas Gem and Mineral Show. This is truly a ...

Since at least December 2017, a photograph of an impressively tall geode has bounced around the blogophere, almost always credited to a company called Nowar Minerals Inc. and accompanied by the ...

On a visit to Tucson, relatives took me to a gem and mineral show where we saw a collection of geodes. Ordinary on the outside; beautiful on the inside. Will you please tell us how they are formed and ...

These hearts were definitely not broken. On the contrary, they were firmly whole and rooted in rock. Miners in Uruguay recently made a once-in-a-lifetime type of discovery when they uncovered a set of ...

Wherever I wander, I have an eye out for new and different things that might make interesting writing and reading. A trip to the Iowa-Missouri-Illinois tri-state corner last weekend offered up some ...

Geode is a type of sedimentary and volcanic rock that is hollow, vaguely circular rock, in which masses of mineral matter (which may include crystals) are sequestered. The term 'Geodes' was derived ...