Publish Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 
There is also a museum that describes the history of the Earth. There are rare fossils in it, which are the biggest witnesses of bio-evolutionary episodes ....
Shashi Bhushan, Dhanbad As soon as the museum is discussed, the pictures showing the tools, coins and folk arts of many ages begin to move around. However, Dhanbad also has a museum which tells the history of the Earth. There are rare fossils in this museum, which are the biggest witnesses of bio-evolutionary episodes. Yes, this unique museum is in Indian School of Mines (IIT) in Dhanbad. The stones and fossils present here are not thousands but millions and millions of years old. Some stones and fossils are in the early stages of the earth.
The fossil of a tree is 25 million years old. Thousands rare rare fossils are also here. There are many prized gems too. Animals such as fish, trees, elephants are powerful sign of fossil biological growth. The most unique collection of the museum is displayed in the Oval Gordon in front of Heritage Building. This Geological-Fossil Museum is one of the unique museums in the country. The fossils present here are witness to the development of the earth. The arrangement of the museum is under the Geophysics department.
Fossils kept in the Museum of ISM.
Fossil of elephant is more than one million years old
This Geological Museum of IIT ISM is no less than any treasure in itself. It is the oldest geological museum in the country. There is a collection of more than 10 thousand stones and fossils. The fossil of elephant brought from South India here is more than a million years old.
Flexible stone like rubber is here
A stone is the most unique in this museum. It's flexible. Stones and resilient people are shocked to hear. But, that's the reality. So whatever the stone is, it is always dry and hard. Regardless, its talk is different. It can turn a hand to a great extent. Even then it does not break. This stone has been brought from Bhiwani district of Haryana. It is known as Flaxible Sand Stone. This name got it due to its merit. There is also a unique collection of gems found throughout the country including Jharkhand. Rubelite gem comes from the mica mines of Koderma.
Britain's Royal School of Mines was founded on the lines of
The IIT ISM was founded on the lines of Britain's Royal School of Mines in 1926 by the British government. The Royal School of Mines already had a Geological Museum. Similarly, the Colorado School of Mines in America was the same museum in the School of Mines of Curtin University in Australia. When IIT ISM was being established in 1926 At the same time it was decided to open the Geological Museum.
Girl students and teachers look at the IIT's ISM museum.
Teachers and students did this unmatched collection
Here the English students and their teachers studying Earth Sciences used to roam the whole country. Used to study geographic conditions. This series continues even today. During the study, students and teachers gathered different kinds of stones and fossils from different places of the country. The number of fossils and rare stones was increasing with passing time. Today it has become a unique collection of them.