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 ...

Calcite looks somewhat similar to quartz, just slightly rougher on the outside. Because of this, many players can benefit from using calcite as a part of their builds. Image via YouTube.

A good example of a mineral is quartz, which is found across the world and in different rocks, ... Limestone, for example, is a sedimentary rock made exclusively of the mineral calcite (CaCO3).

Sheriff's officials on Tuesday afternoon issued evacuation orders as a wildfire sparked southeast of Shingle Springs in El ...

On our previous visits we’ve dug up a number of the other stones: amethyst, garnet, peridot, quartz and calcite, though we haven’t found any diamonds. Not yet. But a lot of folks have.

In essence, calcite splits a beam of light into two dots based on polarization. By aligning filters and rotating angles, you can observe how light behaves when forced into ‘choices’.

When looking at calcite under a microscope, a scientist would immediately recognize the crystalline form of calcium carbonate by its rhombohedral appearance. That is, calcite is shaped like a ...

And while this isn’t science-based, if playing with a rose quartz helps you de-stress and find calm in tough moments, I say go for it. Plus, they’re pretty, after all.

Scientists in Germany have collected dust from Qatar, Morocco and Thailand to analyze the impact on the performance of uncoated solar glass and uncoated PV mini-modules. Their analysis has shown that ...