You’ve heard the slogan, “Diamonds are forever” and while that’s meant to be marketed toward the jewelry customers, it also excites scientists studying diamonds. This is because unlike when you’re ...

Two minerals never seen on Earth before were discovered in a gigantic meteorite weighing 16.5 tons, offering researchers possible clues about how the space rocks are formed. The new minerals were ...

Jadarite is a truly unique mineral. It is rich in lithium, and given our society's hunger for the metal – key to batteries and the energy transition away from fossil fuels – there is a lot of interest ...

A meteorite that crashed to the ground in Somalia in 2020 brought with it at least two unique minerals that cannot be found anywhere else on our globe. University of Alberta scientists, according to a ...

AMHERST, Mass. — Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst are part of a team that has identified a unique mineral on Mars, described in Nature Communications. Named ferric ...

NASA's EMIT sensor allows scientists to identify, track, and quantify various properties in the planet's dusty regions — and not just minerals.

UNDER THE SOIL The unique mineral assemblage of the NICO deposit makes it a primary cobalt deposit that includes 1.1-million ounces of gold, 12% of global bismuth reserves and minor by-product copper ...

A new purple-pink mineral that has a chemical composition and crystalline structure unlike any of the known 4,000 minerals has been discovered at a mining site in Western Australia, researchers report ...

Baja Gold Mineral Sea Salt stands out as a premium, unrefined sea salt harvested from the pristine waters of the Sea of Cortez. Unlike conventional table salts that are heavily processed and stripped ...