Natural gas hydrate is a promising energy resource, but it is challenging to recover methane from the clay pores rich with sediment organic matter due to the inadequate information on hydrate ...

Noise pollution from deep-sea mining carries an invisible risk for sea life, warn researchers, urging greater transparency ...

China dominates the global rare earths industry—and it’s not even close. A fight is already underway to lay claim to this sunken island’s natural riches.

which they say poses drastic risks to marine ecosystems in the process of digging hundreds to thousands of feet below the ocean floor to access mineral deposits. So far, there has been no ...

The Purdue University team has been studying clay minerals for more than 30 years. Over time, they’ve unraveled important details about how these tiny particles behave. Cliff Johnston is lead ...

Johnston, his research team at Purdue University and the Sandia National Laboratories team have been digging into what makes clay minerals tick for more than 30 years. "Clay minerals have an ...

Bauxite deposits in the Amazon region are commonly covered by yellowish clays which can reach up to 25m thick, known as Belterra Clay (BTC). In Rondon do Pará, Eastern Amazon, BTC is 13m thick and ...

† Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing ...

Ferralsols ( Latossolos) should contain few or no 2:1 clay minerals and have low potassium (K) contents, and consequently low levels of non-exchangeable K forms are expected. The aim of this study was ...

However, the building rests on thousands of concrete piles driven into soft marine clay rather than solid bedrock, leading to unprecedented foundation settlement—over 43 centimeters downward ...