October 17, 2023

Ancient nickel-eating microbes can teach us valuable biomining techniques – study

Methanogens are ancient life forms that still exist today. They power their metabolism by breaking down rocks and minerals.

October 16, 2023

Top miners, academics partner to seek new ways to discover sedimentary copper

Kupferschiefer project aims to revisit archive geological data and reinterpret it using petroleum and mineral system approaches, creating maps of mineral prospective areas within the Central European Basin.

October 15, 2023

Limestone reveals the hidden lives of microbes

Limestone uses may expand beyond the cement industry.

October 13, 2023

Rock weathering does not act as CO2 sink – study

Recent research has overturned the view that natural rock weathering acts as a CO2 sink, indicating instead that this can also act as a large carbon dioxide source.

October 11, 2023

NASA to launch first mission to metal-rich asteroid

Scientists believe the asteroid can help discoveries about Earth's core and those of other terrestrial planets.

October 11, 2023

“New” mineral discovered in abandoned gold mine dumps

A newly discovered mineral, named kanatzidisite, was recently unearthed in mining dumps of the abandoned Nagybörzsöny gold deposit in Hungary.

October 10, 2023

How to turn mine tailings into healthy soil

Researchers have developed a new method that is expected to save miners billions of dollars by minimizing the cost and risk of tailings storage.

October 9, 2023

Odds ‘n’ Sods: The isolation of field work can be lonely — and sobering

Every geologist has experienced extreme isolation at some point. That crystalline moment when they realized that if anything happened to them right then and there, they may as well be…

October 8, 2023

Stone Age Ethiopians knew how to source their iron-rich rocks

Middle Stone Age Ethiopians progressively replaced exotic iron-rich high-quality rocks with lower quality, poorer in iron, but locally available ones. Researchers now have clues as to why this happened.

October 6, 2023

US chemicals company develops portfolio of catalysts to solve materials challenge in hydrogen

Mattiq leveraged AI technology in the "world’s most comprehensive study of iridium alternatives".