The survey will take place in an area of 30,000 square miles being considered for mining that is adjacent to the Rose Atoll ...

While the Trump administration frames deep-sea mining as a ‘core national security and economic interest,’ dozens of ...

All the critical minerals the U.S. needs annually for energy, defense and technology applications are already being mined at existing U.S. facilities, according to a new analysis published in the ...

Researchers have discovered at least two minerals that have never been found on Earth. The minerals came from a meteorite found in El Ali, a town in Somalia and the namesake of the meteorite. The El ...

The G20’s new critical minerals framework wants to move Africa beyond raw exports so that mineral wealth creates jobs and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 21—Tahlequah Rock and Mineral Society is prepping for its annual earth science event. Michael Keys, president of the ...

Researchers say they've discovered evidence for the recently proposed 'law of increasing functional information' by proving that minerals evolve as life does. When you purchase through links on our ...

Quartz, diamond, calcite, and pyrite are a few of the most famous mineral “species,” according to traditional systems of classification. Yet, two papers published in American Mineralogist have ...

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