Mining the universe just for the fun of it

For many people, rocks represent some hard material about as exciting as burnt toast. But for Carle Pieters, these mishmashes of minerals represent her career, the things that keep her up at night, cocktail party discussions and, oh, “a lot of fun.” More

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