How Rock of Science Came to Be

It started in 2021, with a friend and a few dozen minerals. It became something else entirely.

When the Specimen Cannot Come to the Studio

Some specimens cannot come to the studio. Two stories from the field.

How to Photograph Your Mineral Collection with a Smartphone

An Online Catalog for a Serious Collector

A research institution, a French immunologist, and a collection of over 1,200 mineral specimens. How we built rock-of-science.com: an online catalog organized by species, element and chemical composition, with scientific context for each specimen.