NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered high-purity quartz crystals on Mars, a discovery that could reshape the search for ...

More than 4,000 naturally occurring minerals—inorganic solids that have a characteristic chemical composition and specific crystal structure—have been found on Earth. They are formed of simple ...

Quartz, felspar and mica are found in pegmatite rocks, which are an important source of many critical minerals such as beryl, lithium, niobium, tantalum, molybdenum, tin, titanium and tungsten ...

"About 22 years ago. I got into collecting minerals somebody gifted me a quartz crystal and it just kind of ignited a passion inside of me," Turner said. Turner says about a year later he got ...