Mining continues at the Continental Pit. Nearby is the Berkeley Pit, a site for acid mine drainage that poses an opportunity ...

Sphalerite is a very cool mineral. It is a beautiful, complex and diverse zinc sulfide (ZnS) mineral that also hosts a ...

Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, ...

Rare earth metals in Ukraine were discovered back in Soviet times, but their study was abandoned. Ukraine has a considerable ...