Museum project focuses on natural art of rock, ore

Sunday, March 21, 2004

JOPLIN, Mo. -- There's a reason that a certain kind of zinc is dubbed ruby jack, but visitors to the Joplin Mineral Museum couldn't tell why by looking at samples of the rock there.

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