Today we look at some interesting things in the news when it comes to gems and minerals. Deming New Mexico USA is having a rock round up near the state rock hounding park. We talk about some fossils giant ones cockroaches! We talk about some new minerals that are rare earth opening up to my name in the US we talk about mining the bottom of the ocean and other cool rock gem and lapidary topics. Support rock hounding and check out our links at the bottom of our blog at radicalrocksusa.blogspot.com remember rockhounds don’t die they petrify Thank you