A new way to trap radioactive waste in minerals for long-term storage
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Study: Enough rare earth minerals to fuel green energy shift
Refined tellurium is displayed at the Rio Tinto Kennecott refinery, May 11, 2022, in…
Scientists reveal that minerals from the asteroid were produced through reactions with water more…
Mineral samples collected from the Ryugu asteroid by the Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft are helping UCLA space scientists and colleagues better understand the…
Experimentalists: Sorry, no oxygen required to make these minerals on Mars
When NASA's Mars rovers found manganese oxides in rocks in the Gale and Endeavor craters on Mars in 2014, the discovery sparked some scientists to suggest…
Greening global economy brings dependence on critical minerals
Global demand for these critical metals may quadruple by 2040.…
NASA’s aircraft will elevate the hunt for critical minerals in the US
NASA and the US Geological Survey plan to deploy aircraft to spot critical minerals buried across the southwest US. They’ll take to the skies to map the…
Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth
“Each one of those kinds of pyrite is telling us something different about our planet, its origin, about life, and how it’s changed through time,” said…
A Powerful ISS Instrument Will Hunt for Minerals in Dusty Lands
What blows through the Sahara doesn’t stay in the Sahara. The vast African desert regularly burps up clouds of dust that fly into Europe, turning snow-capped…
Biden eyes boost to mining of minerals for electric vehicles
President Joe Biden speaks about his proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 in the…
Nokia, Antofagasta Minerals dig deep for private 5G wireless network
After the recent MWC 2022 highlighted the current acceleration of 5G technology in enterprise and industrial applications, such as in the mining…