In this interview, AZoM talks to Eddy Hill about the automated mineralogy solutions offered by ZEISS that enable optimization of mining practices. An introduction makes me think of compressing ...

Sydney, Australia, June 7, 2017 – This week at the FUTORES II international conference on tectonics, ores, resources and sustainability AXT unveiled the Automated Mineralogy Incubator (AMI). The AMI ...

US-based researchers have completed a new high-pressure experiment employing some different styles of heating to reveal an additional mineral residing in earth’s lower mantle. Among these three main ...

Petrology is the study of rocks - igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary - and the processes that form and transform them. Mineralogy is the study of the chemistry, crystal structure and physical ...

Science in the silver age: Aetna, a classical theory of volcanic activity -- Some Neo-Platonic and Stoic influences on mineralogy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Mechanical mineralogy -- ...

Tourmaline is a complex borosilicate mineral that exhibits a broad compositional diversity and a wealth of crystallographic intricacies. It has attracted considerable attention due to its multifaceted ...

What is the structure of the Earth? For starters, it consists of several layers: the crust, the upper and lower mantle, and the core. The mantle makes up most of our planet’s volume - 84 percent. The ...

It's been a hectic week of travel through Europe, on behalf of our gold-copper company. I'm sitting in the Crowne Plaza in Bratislava, Slovakia, getting ready for some meetings in that capacity. The ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The climate throughout Mars’ early history has long been debated – was the Red Planet warm and wet, or cold and icy? New research published in Icarus provides evidence for the ...

The West Australian Supreme Court has ordered a company owned by federal MP and businessman Clive Palmer not to make further amendments to a long-running legal case without the court's permission. Mr ...

The improbable account of how Clive Palmer ­outwitted a United States mining company to nab a piece of mineral-rich Pilbara terrain is part of the narrative that is helpful to his now very public ...