It’s planning to mine a deposit of igneous phosphate rock in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Quebec. The main market for the phosphate ...

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Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

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The “quartz-monitor” research project investigates the intrinsic chemical variations of detrital monocrystalline quartz and inclusions (mineral and melt) as an innovative sediment provenance tool. The ...

Martian Rock Analysis Reveals the Planet Had 'Secret Ingredient' That Was Ideal for Starting Life Planet Mars has always been ...

The FNX story is well-know in Sudbury mining circles. A junior miner whose share value was under a dollar per unit in the early 2000s purchased a number of non-core assets from the old Inco Ltd. (now ...

These geochronological data can be applied to a variety of problems in igneous and metamorphic petrology ... along with supporting rock preparation, mineral separations, and optical & electron beam ...

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, research work has revealed unusual structures that are probably due ...