For being the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment, the original recipes for Egyptian blue remain a mystery. The approximately 5,000-year-old dye wasn’t a single color, but instead encompassed a ...

Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant exoplanets form and what their atmospheres can look like, ...

Titanium silicate minerals encompass a diverse class of compounds in which titanium occupies coordination environments that can functionally substitute for silicon in the silicate framework.

Group of Seven leaders on Monday provisionally agreed on a strategy to help protect the supply of critical minerals and ...

Critical minerals our world needs for electric vehicles and semiconductors can be found here. Clean energy we need to power ...

The one mineral that’s proven to be the most stable, consistent and investment-attracting—time and again—is nowhere to be found on B.C.’s or Canada’s official list of critical minerals.

American mining billionaire Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Atlantic has urged Washington to add high-grade iron ore to the US list of critical minerals to secure a supply for the manufacture of ...

Critical minerals are growing Canada’s economy—except the most reliable one is missing from the list: gold. And B.C. needs to take the first step to fix that, then push Ottawa to follow.

In 2004, researchers from the mining group Rio Tinto found this peculiar mineral in Jadar (pronounced "Yadar"), Serbia. Its ...

One of the lesser-known but strategically vital entries on the U.S. critical minerals list is fluorspar - the only non-metallic mineral on that list that is still 100% imported , according to the ...