The Rock Detectives are the perfect mineral and rock kits for elementary age geologists. Each kit contains 6 or 7 rocks or minerals or rocks, a hand magnifier, and a printable mini-CD with 30 pages of geological information, rock and mineral identification activities, puzzles, experiments, projects, coloring pages, creative writing exercises and fun!
Filed under: Education, Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on December 9th, 2011 | No Comments »
Sandstone forms from beach sand-sized quartz grains that are glued together with quartz or calcite or compressed until they harden into a rock.
Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Rocks on February 3rd, 2011 | No Comments »
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.
Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on November 13th, 2009 | No Comments »
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: Geology / Earth Science, 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 [...]
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 »
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 »
