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Industry - mining / science - geology website, mining artifacts, rocks and mineral specimens, state geology and mining history Idaho Museum of Natural History: Pocatello Bannock Eastern Natural history: Idaho’s geology, fossils, Ice-age megafauna, native culture, plants and animals Idaho Potato Museum: Blackfoot: Bingham: Southeast Food - Potato
In May 1977, the Idaho State Board of Education adopted a resolution requesting that Governor John V. Evans designate the Idaho State University Museum as the Idaho Museum of Natural History (IMNH) and signed into law on July 1, 1977. In 1986, the Idaho State Legislature confirmed the IMNH as Idaho's official state museum of natural history.
The museum hosts school field trips from Idaho and neighboring states, and develops exhibit-related lesson plans and activities for teachers to access online. It also holds summer camps, a variety of STEM-based and history-based programs and classes, as well as continuing education courses for educators that include excursions into the Greater ...
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A specimen of stibnite. The Stibnite Mining District sits atop the Idaho Batholith, one of the signature features of Idaho’s unique geology.The Idaho Batholith is nearly 14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2) of granite, formed from the collision of the oceanic plate and the North American Plate around 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. [10]
Since 1919, the Idaho Geological Survey (formerly Bureau of Mines and Geology) has studied and reported on the general and environmental geology of the state. The Survey also studies and reports on the water (both surface and ground), mineral data, and energy assets of the state.
Tucked away in a 4,500-square-foot former warehouse in a far corner of the Old Idaho Penitentiary in Boise sits an exhibit representing one of the nation’s largest collections of historic ...
Atlanta is an unincorporated community in the western United States, located in Elmore County, Idaho.. Historical Home in Atlanta. It was founded in 1864 during the Civil War as a gold and silver mining community and named by Southerners after a rumored Confederate victory over General Sherman in the Battle of Atlanta, which turned to be wholly false, but the name stuck.