My interests lie in gem and pegmatite minerals. My role at the museum focuses on the care and management of the mineral and gem collections (approx. 185,000 specimens ) including curation, ...

The unique specimen is currently ... deep underground in a pegmatite — an igneous rock. Its chemical formula is Bi³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄ with traces of tantalum. The rarest mineral in the world ...

Horn and Jackpine Showings: Exposed coarse-grained grey pegmatite with biotite, apatite, and radioactive minerals, primarily uraninite. Diamond drilling indicated elusive, lens-like radioactive ...

Average density values were assigned to pegmatite and waste domains based on a database of 2,062 samples. Li-FT envisions that the YLP deposits may be mined using open-pit mining methods. Mineral ...