In this interview, AZoM talks to Eddy Hill about the automated mineralogy solutions offered by ZEISS that enable optimization of mining practices. An introduction makes me think of compressing ...

Sydney, Australia, June 7, 2017 – This week at the FUTORES II international conference on tectonics, ores, resources and sustainability AXT unveiled the Automated Mineralogy Incubator (AMI). The AMI ...

Petrology is the study of rocks - igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary - and the processes that form and transform them. Mineralogy is the study of the chemistry, crystal structure and physical ...

US-based researchers have completed a new high-pressure experiment employing some different styles of heating to reveal an additional mineral residing in earth’s lower mantle. Among these three main ...

It's been a hectic week of travel through Europe, on behalf of our gold-copper company. I'm sitting in the Crowne Plaza in Bratislava, Slovakia, getting ready for some meetings in that capacity. The ...

Science in the silver age: Aetna, a classical theory of volcanic activity -- Some Neo-Platonic and Stoic influences on mineralogy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Mechanical mineralogy -- ...

Tourmaline is a complex borosilicate mineral that exhibits a broad compositional diversity and a wealth of crystallographic intricacies. It has attracted considerable attention due to its multifaceted ...

What is the structure of the Earth? For starters, it consists of several layers: the crust, the upper and lower mantle, and the core. The mantle makes up most of our planet’s volume - 84 percent. The ...

The Tolbachik volcano, located on the Kamchatka Peninsula, has long served as a natural laboratory for understanding high‐temperature mineral formation associated with volcanic eruptions. The diverse ...

The improbable account of how Clive Palmer ­outwitted a United States mining company to nab a piece of mineral-rich Pilbara terrain is part of the narrative that is helpful to his now very public ...