An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, ...

The vegetation found in the fossil deposit suggests multiple tsunamis occurred within the span of two million years, reports Hannah Richter for Science.. But Garrison-Laney tells Science News that ...

The new deposit was uncovered at the Wangu gold field in the northeast of Hunan province, representatives from the Geological Bureau of Hunan Province (GBHP) told Chinese state media on Nov. 20.

A deposit estimated to hold between 20 to 40 million metric tons of lithium has been discovered at the McDermitt Caldera crater along the Nevada-Oregon border, which could make it the largest ever … ...

Deposit morphologies for a settling particle. When increasing either the injection volume or the settling height, the deposit radius increases. Credit: M. Souzy et al., 2025 ...

Initially, geologists think, lithium-rich rhyolitic tuff deposits accumulated in Rhyolite Ridge's tectonically active basin. As the basin developed, a lake formed, depositing clay-rich lake ...

Scientists are just beginning to understand the microbes that have been with us for millennia — the so-called microbiome, ...

Locating diamond deposits in the earth isn't always an exact science, so the greater the number of methods of doing so, the better. A new study now suggests that soil microbes may point the way to ...

Scientists have discovered the single largest repository of gold in the world that makes Fort Knox look like a piggy bank. Making up 99.999% of all the precious metal on the planet, it's just ...

An ancient volcano beneath Nevada and Oregon could hold the largest deposit of lithium ever found, scientists revealed last month in a peer-reviewed paper.This section of land—called “Thacker ...

Widespread ice deposits on the moon Date: October 3, 2024 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: Deposits of ice in lunar dust and rock (regolith) are more extensive than previously ...

Chinese officials have announced the discovery of a massive deposit of high-quality gold ore, potentially worth around $83 billion, ... Harry is a U.K.-based senior staff writer at Live Science.