briny lakes surrounded by mile after mile of salt and gypsum. Today, scientists call this the Messinian Salinity Crisis: in the dying days of the Miocene epoch, most of the Mediterranean died.

Limited for renewed mining activity at the former gypsum mine at Drumgoosat, Co Monaghan. The underground mine, which closed in 1989, destroyed facilities at Magheracloone Mitchells GAA club and a ...

More than five years after the U.S. Gypsum Corporation shuttered the mine, manufacturing facilities and the company-owned town of Empire, Nev., the Chicago-based drywall manufacturer has sold the ...

Sarah said a bulldozer contractor would break up the wall of the mine to bring up the gypsum and lime product, before it’s loaded into a crusher for processing. “We’re only small mining ...

The research focused on gypsum formations that developed during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, a period when the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean. "The Messinian Salinity ...

ATHENS - Mines attached to the hulls of ships and set off with timers likely caused blasts that have damaged two crude oil tankers in the Mediterranean Sea since January, three sources close to ...

thanks to a new study of Earthly microbial fossils embedded in the mineral gypsum that was produced when the Mediterranean Ocean dried up over 5 million years ago. Mars was once wet, with rivers ...

But to identify these microbial fossils we first need to prove we can identify similar fossils in places where we know such microbes existed — such as Mediterranean gypsum formations that ...

It is a mineral used to make types of plaster which coat our homes, schools and offices - and in Cumbria sits the world's deepest gypsum mine. Outside the small village of Long Marton, against the ...