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World's largest amethyst vandalised
Montevideo :: Uruguay | almost 2 years ago
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But it's now missing a bit after a tourist broke off a chunk of crystals the size of a tennis ball in a brazen act of theft and vandalism. Advertisement: Story continues below "It's like slashing the Mona Lisa but worse because the Empress is one of
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Camp Branch residents vow to continue fighting Alabaster over chert operation
Alabaster :: AL :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Some residents in the Camp Branch community have vowed to keep up their opposition to Shelby County's request for Alabaster to rezone 27 acres so the county can get chert off the land. The county wants the land rezoned from residential to M-2 heavy
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Crystal Visions: Just Dig ’Em Up
Herkimer :: NY :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Multimedia IT was a hot June day in Central New York, hardly a time to think of swinging a pick and sledge for recreation. But there they were: dozens of children, parents and retirees at the Herkimer Diamond Mines' three sites, hammering through
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NASA Finds Hidden and ‘Tantalizing’ Volcanic Complex on Moon [PHOTOS]
New York City :: NY :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Must Read Like us on Facebook For example, the scientists think the newly-discovered volcanic province is comparatively young due to its lack of craters (formed from asteroid impacts), which may suggest that volcanic activities on the moon, at least
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Has Basalt's economy finally hit bottom?
Denver :: CO :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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07/18/2011 07:25:31 AM MDT Updated: 07/18/2011 07:38:10 AM MDT Basalt's sales tax revenues fell nearly 5.5 percent in May from the same month the prior year. Town officials figure that the weather was more of a culprit than the economy.
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The Man, the Moon, and the Lawsuit [Crime]
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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The Man, the Moon, and the Lawsuit Esther Inglis-Arkell The United States, over the years, collected two hundred and thirty moon rocks...Now a lawsuit is under way to figure out who has the rights to a rock that took a turn into private hands. The US
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Casey Affleck Reads from Ben Mezrich’s Sex on the Moon
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Johnson Space Center Cooperative Program, Thad Roberts abandoned his sheltered Mormon upbringing and started aiming for the stars, literally: going to extreme lengths to give his girlfriend an actual hunk of the lunar surface. In his new book Sex on
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Geological Outings Around the Bay: The Great Slickenside of Corona Heights
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Sutro Tower and the gnarled chert of the Marin Headlands terrane are parts of a splendid spectacle at San Francisco's Corona Heights. Photo by Andrew Alden San Francisco is "America's Favorite City" for many great reasons. Geologists have their own
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Italian sculptor makes marble thinner than paper
New York City :: NY :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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As technology is slowly taking over the world, art is also undergoing certain metamorphoses. Moscow's Garage Center for Contemporary Culture is taking a closer look at these changes at the Decode exhibition...Russian-born Alexander Melamid - will
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The rise of today�s mammals may be traced to hot magma
Southampton :: United Kingdom | almost 2 years ago
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A new study has suggested that hot magma a mixture of molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth may have given rise to modern mammals. Researcher Adam Charles, a paleooceanographer at the University of
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