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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Richard Ratkevich, owner of Tucson Mineral and Gem World. (Photo by: GenĂ¡e Gonzales/Arizona Sonora News)

Tucson’s house of curiosities in the middle of the desert

Genae Gonzales February 23, 2018

And there it was: just an old, small wooden building in the middle of the desert. Tucson Mineral and Gem World is home to over 100,000 rocks, minerals, fossils and artifacts. Some of the strangest...

The Amerind Museum from the outside. (Photo by The Amerind Foundation/Arizona Sonora News Service)

The Amerind Foundation: Texas Canyon’s hidden collection of Native American culture

Yuji Miyaji October 8, 2015

Expanses of blood-orange canyons and luscious green shrubs line a small dirt road near the Texas Canyon exit off Interstate 10 in Cochise County and continue to a picnic area with boulders and grass fields...

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