Be a Mini Me Geologist or a Rock! Be as creative as you want to be. Make sure your costumes say “Mini Me Geology” on the front and snap a picture. Send us your pictures and the best costume (as chosen by our little geologists here) will win a new Rock Detectives kit! All pictures [...]
Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on October 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Children will love to solve this Metamorphic Mystery from Mini Me Geology. Your Metamorphic Mystery kit comes complete with six neat rock samples: red slate, tourmaline schist, pink quartzite, white marble, granitoid gneiss and amphibolite. Also included in the kit is a hand magnifier and a CD with 30 pages of mineral information, sample [...]
Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on October 21st, 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. [...]
Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on October 13th, 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.
Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on September 9th, 2009 | No Comments »
50% off at www.MiniMeGeology.com this weekend with coupon code “LABORDAY”
Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on September 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
