• Nov 13, 2013 ~ Robert Bigelow Calls for FAA to Allow Property Rights for Lunar Mining
  
• Nov 20, 2013 ~ Prince Charles Claims Mineral Rights - Duchy of Cornwall
• Oct 04, 2011 ~ Interview with Mazlan Othman, Director of the Office for Outer Space Affairs

• NASA PRESS RELEASES

• PLANETARY RESOURCES PRESS RELEASES
• July 15, 2015 ~ Planetary Resources Moves Closer to Mining Asteroids
• July 16, 2015 ~ Asteroid Mining Company's 1st Satellite Launches from Space Station

• Asteroids
• Asteroid Dust Could Fight Climate Change on Earth - Live Science
• Ceres
• 'Bright Spot' on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion
• Water Detected on Dwarf Planet Ceres
• NASA is Going to Catch Asteroids
•   Moon
• Helium 3
• Lunar Mining of Helium-3 - Fusion Technology Institute - University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
• There’s Helium-3 in them there Moon hills! - by Guy Cramer - December 14, 2004
• Lunar Mining Possibilities - The Minerals and Their Value - by Ron Schmidt
• Mars
• Plate Tectonics on Mars?

• Diamonds Galore
• Diamonds ~ A Girl's Best Friend
• Diamonds in the Rough
• It's Raining Diamonds on Neptune and Uranus
• 'Diamond rain' falls on Saturn and Jupiter
• Huge seas of liquid diamond discovered on Neptune and Uranus
  
• Martian Minerals
  
• Curiouser And Curiouser: NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Piles Of Silica On Mars
• NASA Spacecraft Detects Impact Glass on Surface of Mars
  
• Martian Geochemistry
• Mining the Gas Giants
• Moon Rocks
• Apollo 12 Mission - Lunar Sample Overview - Apollo 12 Basalt Samples - Lunar and Planetary Institute
• New Moon Rock Is Fit for a King - Courtesy of NASA
• Rock Hounding on Mars Series
  
• Blueberries - Hematite Spheres
• Fields of Hematite Opportunity Rover Landing Site 
• Evidence of a Water-Soaked Past
• More "Blueberries" & Earth Equivalents
• The Blueberry Fields of Barsoom
• Blueberry Fields Forever
• Carbonate - NASA Scientists Find 'Missing' Mineral and Clues to Mars Mysteries
  
• Oil
• Geysers Discovered on Mars - Oil Wells? Methane Gas Vents? Black Sand Geysers? Whatever they are this is an annual scene at the Martian South Pole
• Sign of Oil Seepage on Mars? - Strange Seepage Discovered on Mars, A Truly Unique Phenomenon on Mars
  
• Mineral Salts
• Scoria and Basalt on Salty Dried Lake Bed
• Deep Tracks In Colorful Salt
• Sulfur-rich Soil on Mars Puzzles Scientists
• Spirit Stirs Up Salt Again
  
• Opals - A Gem of a Find
• Pyroxene - A Colorful 'Bounce'
• Vesicular Basalt and Scoria
• Sand-polished Fine-grained Basalt Venifacts
• Titan - Moon of Saturn
• Titan's Atmosphere Revealed by New NASA Observation
• Polar Winds On Saturn's Moon Titan Makes It More Earth-Like Than Previously Thought
• Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth
• The Mysterious ‘Lakes’ on Saturn's Moon Titan - June 19, 2015

• Extraterrestrial Life Possibilities
• Scientists Discover Volcanoes And Evidence Of Ancient Microbial Activity On Jovian Moon
• Potential for Extraterrestrial Life - Europa, Moon of Jupiter
• NASA Plans Diving Mission to Europa
• DEPTHX ~ Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer
• ENDURANCE ~ Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic Antarctic Explore
• "Towards Lunar Archaeology" - Dr. Alexey V. Arkhipov
• NASA Programs
• NASA's Spinoff

• NASA's Hubble Sees Cloudy Super-Worlds With Chance for More Clouds - Exoplanet GJ 436b - NASA Press Release - Dec. 31, 2013
• DIAMOND PLANETS - Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of our own made largely out of diamond.

Earth Based Geology of Interest, Rocks and Mineral

This section will contain articles about unusual geological sites of interest as well as photos and information on some fantastic mineral and crystal finds. It will also include links to our minerals and gems that are available to purchase as they become available

• Earth Minerals of Interest
  
• Agates and Geodes
• Natural Purple Botryoidal Agate from Indonesia
• Aquamarine
• Introducing the Dom Pedro Aquamarine
• Diamonds
• Second-Largest Diamond in History Is Found
• Garnets
• Garnet var. Spessartine
• Opals
• Opals from Australia
• Boulder Opal
  
• Opals from Oregon
• Finding the Ocean Inside of a Giant Opal
• Nephrite
• An 18 Ton Nephrite Jade Boulder Found in Canada 2000
• Quartz
• Amazing Quartz Crystals
  
• Pyrite
• Amazing Pyrite Crystals
  
• Realgar
• Amazing Realgar Crystals
• Sapphire
• Newly Found 'Star Sapphire' Is Worth $100M
• Tourmaline
• Marvelous Multi-colored Tourmaline