Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

The Worcester area has evidence of the Mesoproterozoic Era, going back to the earliest known days of the present-day Earth's ...

The other location is in Mountain Pass, California, where hard rock mining extracts a rare earth carbonate mineral called bastnaesite. Yet again, much of the material is sent abroad for refining.

It’s a process akin to weathering: the breakdown or dissolution of rocks and minerals on the surface of Earth. It’s caused by chemical and physical interactions with water, the air, and living ...

Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed Mining is an environmental and human rights nightmare. Battery recycling can ease that.

Both environments are ideal conditions for life as we know it,” Wiens said. “These minerals are what’s left behind when rock has been in flowing water for eons. Over time, the warm water leaches away ...