Feb 8, 2017 by News Staff

A team of geologists has discovered three new minerals — leesite, leószilárdite and redcanyonite — growing on the walls of old uranium mines...

Feb 16, 2016 by News Staff

A team of researchers has inventoried and categorized all of Earth’s rare mineral species described to date. This false-color image shows the mineral...

Aug 26, 2015 by News Staff

The mineral diversity of Earth is unique and could not be duplicated anywhere in the cosmos. That’s according to a group of researchers, led by Dr Robert...

Apr 2, 2015 by News Staff

This March 18, 2015, view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity rover shows a network of two-tone mineral veins at an area called Garden...

Dec 9, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by Dr David Bish of Indiana University has analyzed recent data from the CheMin, a miniaturized X-ray diffraction...

Jun 18, 2014 by News Staff

A new mineral, believed to be the most abundant on our planet, has been named after U.S. physicist Percy Williams Bridgman (1882 – 1961), who won the...

Apr 22, 2014 by Natali Anderson

A multinational group of scientists led by Dr Peter Elliott of South Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide has described a new mineral from...

Aug 5, 2013 by News Staff

The International Mineralogical Association has officially approved qingsongite as the name for a new mineral, cubic boron nitride. Qingsongite is a recently...

Jun 26, 2012 by News Staff

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have discovered a new mineral embedded in the Allende meteorite that fell in central Mexico more...

Jun 26, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new study has demonstrated that the creation of most minerals containing mercury is fundamentally linked to several episodes of supercontinent assembly...