The Sterling Hill Mining Museum in Ogdensburg, NJ is the fluorescing mineral capital of the world. Certain minerals found here are not found anywhere else on the planet. In this video, we talk with ...

The MIST team, from left to right, Yueyang Jiang, Kirsten Siebach, Gelu Costin and Eleanor Moreland (Photo credit: Linda Fries/Rice University). Identifying a mineral might sound straightforward: ...

IT is usually from the investigations of mineralogy that an estimation of the grade of metamorphism is made, since the appearance of some minerals and disappearance of others—or the change of ...

Identification of minerals founded on BSE signal segmentation can be challenging as some minerals have comparable BSE intensities. Advanced Mineral Identification and Characterization System (AMICS) ...

"The key for identification of rock-forming minerals provides an efficient and systematic approach to identifying minerals in thin-section. It is structured in the form of a dichotomous key, ...

Mining in Arizona has grown significantly over the past several centuries thanks to extensive mineral identifications within its borders. In the publication, “Minerals of Arizona,” W.P. Blake in 1909 ...