Jadarite—commonly known as kryptonite due to its chemical similarity to the mineral bane of Superman—has only every been ...

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 ...

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

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 … ...

Geologists have discovered the largest iron ore deposit ever found in human history - estimated to be worth the combined GDP of the United Kingdom, Italy and France (2023 figures).

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

According to a new report, the world’s largest lithium reserve is nestled along the Oregon-Nevada border in an area known as the McDermitt Caldera.