Jarosite has a hidden power. It can trap toxic metals like arsenic, lead and antimony inside its structure. But, locking up ...

Juneteenth Cultural Festival Also known as Freedom Day, Juneteenth celebrates the day 250,000 enslaved Black people were ...

A shout-out to the growing number of young women I see at ECU Health Wellness Center who are doing strength training. Come on, senior women, we need it as much or more than the young women to ...

An international team has found “compelling evidence” of multiple mineral-forming events just below the planet’s surface. “Sulphate minerals exist with different amounts of water in most ...

USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers have discovered a mineral commonly found in seashells could be the key to a safer plastic alternative. Chung began to revisit work she had done as a ...

US President Donald Trump is in the process of drafting an executive order that would enable America to stockpile the wealth of critical minerals found on the Pacific Ocean seabed, the Financial ...

They all have newly discovered minerals in New Mexico named after them. Ray DeMark, a former Albuquerque Public Schools instructor for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, found three minerals ...

“The pinnacles look incredible and are made from calcium carbonate, a mineral we found on Bennu,” Tim McCoy, report co-author and curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian National Museum of ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — In honor of National “Collect Rocks” Day, here’s a look at the wide variety of minerals — such as crystals and precious metals — that can be found across Central ...

Interestingly, people who were looking for sapphires found this mineral in an alluvial stream. However, kyawthuite isn’t related to sapphires, which is a form of corundum that can come in every ...

Researchers have found 230 million tons of precious minerals off a remote island over 1,200 miles from Tokyo. The motherlode contains enough cobalt and nickel to supply Japan for over a decade.