Welcome to the minerals homepage in the learning zone!

Minerals are among the most beautiful objects in nature, and they are used to make objects you use every day of your life - including the computer you are looking at right now! Read on to discover more about them. Just click on one of the links to find out more.

What is a mineral?
Do you know what a mineral really is? Why is a mineral like a cake? Test yourself with the mineral quiz.

Mineral detectives
All you need to know to identify specimens in your mineral collection.

How we use minerals
We use minerals everyday. Find out how you use minerals at work, home and school.

Krystal the quartz

Krystal the quartz recommends finding out about the properties of minerals in Mineral detectives, playing Mineral mastermind, or trying one of our other Games.