ROCK STARS: For 70 years, the Mineral Research Laboratory in Asheville’s South Slope neighborhood has worked with mining companies around the world to come up with efficient ways to harvest and ...

Swiss naturalist and physician Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim - better known as Paracelsus -was among the first naturalists to study how the fumes, dust and ash found in a ...

GIRI (Grinding, Imaging and Reconstruction Instrument), the centerpiece of the newly constructed Princeton Grinder Lab, is a fully automated rock grinder equipped with a high-resolution camera. GIRI’s ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Like many abandoned mines, the Eureka uranium mine in northern Spain is a maze of long, dank tunnels. Water seeping down the walls carries dissolved substances that percolated through rocks overhead.

Michigan researchers were part of a team that has solved a 200-year mystery of growing a common mineral in a laboratory, a development that may one day allow them to produce the substance for ...

A little knowledge of rocks and minerals will help you identify everything from jewelry to fossils. While reading this article may not turn you into a geologist, it should give you the basic ...

How hard is a diamond? What is the difference between granites and garnets? Minerals are the building blocks of rocks. They are inorganic, crystalline solids with a known chemistry. Examples of ...

Lead found in Flint, Michigan water is an unfortunate example of negligence leading to the mass exposure of elemental lead found naturally in iron ore. Much in the same way humans communicate warnings ...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: I was walking down Coxe Avenue in the South Slope the other day. It had been a long time since I was there, and ...

Federal Government, through Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC), has established an agriculture and minerals resources International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) ...