Critical minerals will continue to be drivers and stabilizers of US foreign policy for the foreseeable future.

Something unusual is happening deep within Earth’s mantle,around 1,700 miles below the surface, where seismic waves accelerate in a way that has left scientists scratching their heads for decades.

Calcite, quartz, and pyrite are just a few of the beautiful minerals that can be found in Jackson County. These examples take a long time to form, sometimes tens or ...

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Geologists discover three unique new minerals at Cookes Peak, New Mexico: raydemarkite, virgilluethite, and stunorthropite.

A tiny new mineral named ehrigite, containing bismuth and tellurium, could revolutionize mining exploration and renewable ...

Weird Life Found Trapped in Giant Underground Crystals. Floating in pockets of fluid, the microbes are likely new to science and may be up to 50,000 years old, a NASA researcher says.

Officials boast on social media that Oklahoma is a "one phone call state," a description meant to evoke what they see as a ...

Almost 3,000 kilometers underground, a seismic mystery has been solved as earthquake waves anomalous behavior is finally ...

Crystals that are perfectly symmetrical around a central point can nevertheless respond to light as if they were asymmetric, ...

John Dowd The Bitterroot Gem and Mineral Society is gearing up for their biggest and only event of the year. Faith Farley, a member of the Bitterroot Gem and […] ...