Researchers are developing a handheld instrument, much like a tricorder from the "Star Trek" television show, that will allow almost instant identification of minerals. The pocket-sized instrument ...

Earth AI, an AI-driven mineral exploration company, has raised $20m (A$31.97m) in an oversubscribed Series B funding round. The funding, led by Tamarack Global and Cantos Ventures, will bolster its AI ...

When news broke late last month that an unidentified bright blue mineral had been found in Adventure Mining Company’s historic Upper Peninsula copper mine, many people made speculations on social ...

Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and Idaho National Laboratory. Additional Funding by the Friends of Idaho Public Television and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Science ...

Today's activities will focus on the physical properties of minerals and you will use physical properties to identify 11 common rock-forming and ore minerals. In class you will be using the mineral ...

Research confirms new minerals are capturing and storing carbon. The minerals, members of the hydrotalcite group, are the first outside of the carbonate family to naturally capture atmospheric CO2 in ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Did you know that minerals are all around us? Minerals are the building blocks that make up rocks! They are the ores that we extract metals from ...

The White House today released its plan to shore up U.S. supply chains, identifying the next steps to ensuring domestic access to critical minerals and laying out a blueprint for manufacturing ...

QUESTION: What makes rocks hard? ANSWER: When you go out for a walk and look at the stones around you, you will see that there are big stones, small stones and tiny ones. All these stones are pieces ...

It’ll be a snap to identify gemstones once Robert Downs finishes his library of spectral fingerprints for all the Earth’s minerals. Downs is almost halfway there. So far, the associate professor of ...

It'll be a snap to identify gemstones once Robert Downs finishes his library of spectral fingerprints for all the Earth's minerals. Downs is almost halfway there. So far, the associate professor of ...