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Sedimentary rocks are formed when sand, small pieces of rock, or mud are deposited as layers of sediment.

Filed under: geology, rocks on February 26th, 2010 | No Comments »

Staurolite is a silicate mineral which occurs in metamorphic rocks and is often found with the minerals kyanite and garnet. Staurolite is a 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs Hardness Scale which has a range from 1 (softest) to 10 (hardest), has a glassy to resinous luster and a colorless streak. Prismatic crystals of staurolite are common and often found twinned.

Filed under: geology, minerals on February 5th, 2010 | No Comments »

Question: Which rocks have the name that means fire? Answer: The mineral name pyrite is derived from the Greek word for fire.

Filed under: earth science, geology, minerals on January 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »

Get all 6 Rock Detectives kits for the price of 5 when you buy the full set. Each kit comes complete with six or 7 cool rock or mineral samples, a hand magnifier and a CD with 30 pages of rock and mineral information, sample identification activities, puzzles, coloring pages, and experiments. Other fun activities on the CD include creating your own adventure story, making a personal geologist’s field notebook and your very own rock collection box!

Filed under: earth science, geology, minerals, rocks on December 9th, 2009 | No Comments »

The first 100 people to make a purchase from our website, www.MiniMeGeology.com will receive a free citrine crystal when they put ‘EILEEN’ in the comments section of the shopping cart! This offer is valid today only.

Filed under: earth science, geology, minerals, rocks on November 12th, 2009 | No Comments »

Teach your children about sedimentary rocks with this cool Sedimentary Sleuthing kit. Your kit comes complete with six cool sedimentary rock samples: lignite coal, sedimentary breccia, conglomerate, fossiliferous limestone, yellow sandstone and shale.

Filed under: earth science, geology, minerals, rocks on November 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »

We are thrilled to announced that our entire line of Rock Detective kits are now available.  For the next few days on our blog we will feature each of the new kits to give you a little information about each one.  To check them all out click here.
First up, is our Crystal Experiment Kit.  Children [...]

Filed under: earth science, geology, minerals, rocks on October 13th, 2009 | No Comments »

Question: What is the name of sand grains cemented together?

Filed under: earth science, geology, minerals, rocks on September 11th, 2009 | No Comments »

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Filed under: earth science, geology, minerals, rocks on June 24th, 2009 | No Comments »

New question from Mini Me Geology’s Ask-a-Geologist Feature! Question: What are some household items made out of igneous rock?

Filed under: earth science, geology, minerals, rocks on June 12th, 2009 | No Comments »