Calvin College museum with mineral collection

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Calvin College in Grand Rapids has opened a museum displaying a mineral collection donated by alumnus Bruce Dice. It includes 300 unique specimens.

The Bruce Dice Mineralogical Museum was built next to the college’s North Hall. Among the items are a six-ounce gold nugget, an octopus fossil that’s 100 million-years old, and a piece of the Allende meteorite, which crashed to earth in 1969.