Our friend Derek invited PaleoCris, Ashley, and myself out to a couple of cool sites he hunts for druzy quartz crystals and calcite crystals in fossil clam shells! The sites aren't terribly far apart ...

Calcite, quartz, and pyrite are just a few of the beautiful minerals that can be found in Jackson County. These examples take a long time to form, sometimes tens or ...

At the final stage of formation, mainly in the center of the void, idiomorphic quartz of different colors—brown, smoky quartz, amethyst, and rock crystal—can crystallize, sometimes accompanied by ...

As simple pleasures are gay and hiking is gay, it feels easy to declare that the sport of rockhounding is also a gay activity ...

Quartz for Digital Guarantees: Digitalizes the end-to-end bank guarantee management process by connecting guarantee issuers and beneficiaries (government and corporates) in a blockchain ecosystem ...

The key mineral constituents of a shale rock include clay minerals (such as kaolinite, chlorite, illite), quartz, and calcite, while traces of carbonates, pyrite, and feldspars are also found. (1,2) ...

The intermittence of solar energy resource in concentrated solar power (CSP) generation and solar drying applications can be mitigated by employing thermal energy storage materials. Natural rocks are ...