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Shop for rock kits for kids, My Rockin’ Collection dexlue kits, our new Rock Detectives Mineral Mission kit, individual rocks, minerals, streak plates and hand magnifiers. Shopping for your classroom? All of our School Edition kits are ready for you! Shop now at www.MiniMeGeology.com!
Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on September 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
Hand lenses / hand magnifiers are very useful tools for studying small objects such as rocks, flowers, or bugs. Young children especially benefit from the use of a hand-held magnifier as they are often not able to use a microscope but can easily operate the hand magnifier.
Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on September 24th, 2009 | No Comments »
Ask-a-Geologist Q&A about Metamorphic Rocks. What rocks are changed by high pressure and high temperature?
Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on September 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
A streak test is one tool that geologists use to determine the identity of a mineral. The “streak” is the color of the mineral in powdered form. Some minerals will have a streak color that is the same as the outer color of the mineral while others will have a streak color that is very different from the outer color.
Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on September 17th, 2009 | No Comments »
Question: What is the name of sand grains cemented together?
Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on September 11th, 2009 | No Comments »
A new shipment of wonderful grossular garnet crystals have arrived. Beautiful grossular garnet mineral from Mexico is one of six varieties of garnet. Each single crystal shows the natural dodecahedral form of the garnet group. These samples, from Mexico, are approximately 0.75 to 1 inch in size.
Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on September 10th, 2009 | No Comments »
Sapphires are a blue form of the mineral corundum. When corundum is red, it is called a ruby.
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