Michigan looks to be the next big play in exploring and producing natural gas from deep shale formations. A single prodigious gas well in Missaukee County, drilled nearly two miles deep in the ...

IRONWOOD, MI — The state of Michigan and an Upper Peninsula land management company have swapped thousands of acres of subsurface mineral rights in a transaction that enables private exploration for ...

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI -- Stepping into Rockhound Rock Shop, visitors are transported to another world. There’s a seemingly never-ending cascade of rooms in the Galesburg shop, each with a different ...

Marquette — At night, when Rochelle Dale looks to the western sky from her home along the Yellow Dog River, she sometimes mistakes the glow for the northern lights. It's the Eagle Mine site five miles ...

Jaszczak, who has served as a professor in Michigan Tech’s Department of Physics since 1991, has been an avid mineral collector since childhood. His love of minerals inspired him to become a scientist ...

The aptly named Pioneer natural gas well, near Lake City in Missaukee County’s Pioneer Township, is a stack of gauges and metal piping that rises about 7 feet from a bed of crushed stone at the center ...

This “bright blue mineral” was found in a Michigan copper mine, according to park officials. Screengrab/Adventure Mine Photos of a mysterious “bright blue mineral” discovered in a historic Michigan ...

Michigan Tech physics professor John Jaszczak worked with researchers from around the world to identify merelaniite. In time, a better understanding of its chemistry may reveal useful applications. × ...

Western Michigan University's Michigan Geological Repository for Research and Education, working in conjunction with the company Michigan Potash, said that it has rediscovered a mineral deposit in ...

This “bright blue mineral” was found in a Michigan copper mine, according to park officials. Screengrab/Adventure Mine Photos of a mysterious “bright blue mineral” discovered in a historic Michigan ...

This “bright blue mineral” was found in a Michigan copper mine, according to park officials. Screengrab/Adventure Mine Photos of a mysterious “bright blue mineral” discovered in a historic Michigan ...