Mineralogy is the study of minerals, the building blocks of rocks, which are naturally-occurring, crystalline solids with a set chemical make-up. This includes the study of the chemical ...

Nestled in the heart of Paris, the Musée de Minéralogie houses one of the world's finest collections of minerals, gems and meteorites. A fascinating journey among nature's true treasures, in an ...

New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...

Mineralogy International Limited - owned by controversial mining magnate Clive Palmer - applied to surrender 15 of its 16 ...

ABSTRACT: Clays are a constituent of the earth. As a result, the discovery and traditional use of clays in construction and pottery worldwide dates back to antiquity. Guinea has several deposits of ...

Detailed chemical, structural, and magnetic information can be obtained with this method (Murad and Cashion, 2004), as the spectra depend on the mineralogy, lattice type, abundance of structural ...

THE general arrangement of the third edition of Pt. 2 of Winchell's “Elements” remains broadly the same as in earlier editions. Advances in knowledge of the relations between the optical ...

Project Description BHP aims to increase copper production in South Australia to more than 500 000 t/y of refined copper ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return from Mars. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas astrobiologist leading the ...