The startup uses AI to quickly search for minerals over wide areas, identifying promising potential deposits for exploration.

In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...

Deep below Earth’s surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the ...

A U.S. Geological Survey effort to find underground deposits of clean energy metals has gotten bipartisan support.

That's because rocks are made of different minerals and rocks get their names (mostly) from what minerals they contain. Now, much of the time, once you've been trained to identify minerals, you can ...

Pale rocks on the red planet reveal a watery past and suggest the potential for life. Sometimes, scientists have to dig, work ...

"On Earth, these minerals form where ... science in the College of Science, and several of her and Wiens' students. The team found more than 4,000 of these white rocks and pebbles scattered ...

Southern Nevada teachers spend part of spring break learning about mining, earth science. Read more from The Nevada ...

But Curiosity wasn't the only one with a geological mystery. At the same time, roughly 2,300 miles away on the other side of ...

Scientists have have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

and we’re transforming it in a big and consistent way through the sustained funding,” Earth MRI science coordinator Jamey Jones told Grist in an interview. In addition to mapping minerals ...