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First Phosphate gets mining research and innovation grant from Québec

The company’s objective is to see the development of a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery valley in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region of Quebec.

Staff Writer | March 6, 2024 | 3:56 pm

O3 Mining wins 2024 PDAC Sustainable Development Award

This award is given for "demonstrating an exceptional commitment to…

Staff Writer | March 6, 2024 | 1:38 pm

Colorado School of Mines, USGS, major miners join forces to study geologic hydrogen

Geologic hydrogen is a naturally occurring gas with significant potential…

Staff Writer | March 5, 2024 | 6:06 pm

Zutari recognizes women engineers on World Engineering Day

Consulting engineering and infrastructure advisory firm showcases four exceptional women…

Staff Writer | March 4, 2024 | 1:35 pm

Fleet Space, Stanford University’s Mineral-X team up to advance space-enabled climate innovation

The focus will be on the optimization of drill targeting…

Staff Writer | March 4, 2024 | 12:34 pm

Top miners, academics partner to seek new ways to discover sedimentary copper

Kupferschiefer project aims to revisit archive geological data and reinterpret it using petroleum and mineral system approaches, creating maps of mineral prospective areas within the Central European Basin.

Staff Writer | October 16, 2023 | 6:42 am

Limestone reveals the hidden lives of microbes

Limestone uses may expand beyond the cement industry.

Staff Writer | October 15, 2023 | 7:50 am

Rock weathering does not act as CO2 sink – study

Recent research has overturned the view that natural rock weathering acts as a CO2 sink, indicating instead that this can also act as a large carbon dioxide source.

Staff Writer | October 13, 2023 | 5:22 am

NASA to launch first mission to metal-rich asteroid

Scientists believe the asteroid can help discoveries about Earth's core and those of other terrestrial planets.

Staff Writer | October 11, 2023 | 9:19 am

“New” mineral discovered in abandoned gold mine dumps

A newly discovered mineral, named kanatzidisite, was recently unearthed in mining dumps of the abandoned Nagybörzsöny gold deposit in Hungary.

Staff Writer | October 11, 2023 | 6:06 am

How to turn mine tailings into healthy soil

Researchers have developed a new method that is expected to save miners billions of dollars by minimizing the cost and risk of tailings storage.

Staff Writer | October 10, 2023 | 6:22 am

Odds ‘n’ Sods: The isolation of field work can be lonely — and sobering

Every geologist has experienced extreme isolation at some point. That crystalline moment when they realized that if anything happened to them right then and there, they may as well be on Mars.

Ralph Rushton | October 9, 2023 | 11:14 am

Stone Age Ethiopians knew how to source their iron-rich rocks

Middle Stone Age Ethiopians progressively replaced exotic iron-rich high-quality rocks with lower quality, poorer in iron, but locally available ones. Researchers now have clues as to why this happened.

Staff Writer | October 8, 2023 | 7:11 am

US chemicals company develops portfolio of catalysts to solve materials challenge in hydrogen

Mattiq leveraged AI technology in the "world’s most comprehensive study of iridium alternatives".

Amanda Stutt | October 6, 2023 | 11:49 am

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