The November birthstone is topaz. Topaz is a unique gemstone which comes in a huge varitey of colors such as orange-yellow, colorless, light blue, pink, brown and green.
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We received this interesting question from a 10-year old who is interested in what is it like to work as a geologist.
Question: Is being a geologist fun? Or is it drudgery? Do you have to stay away from your family for long periods of time?
Filed under: earth science, geology, minerals, rocks on November 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 become the [...]
Filed under: earth science, geology, minerals, rocks on October 24th, 2009 | No Comments »
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: earth science, geology, minerals, rocks on October 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: earth science, geology, minerals, rocks on September 17th, 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 »
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: earth science, geology, 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: earth science, geology, minerals, rocks on September 9th, 2009 | No Comments »
50% off at www.MiniMeGeology.com this weekend with coupon code “LABORDAY”
Filed under: earth science, geology, minerals, rocks on September 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
Question: What term is used for metamorphic rock with banded texture?
Filed under: earth science, rocks on August 25th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
