While various textiles, plastics, and even waste from different sources are being recycled and given a new life, the debate around the use of salt as a building material encourages the development ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new ...

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

Rock and mineral clubs such as Worcester Mineral Club sponsor field trips to mines and other places to learn more about the region's geological wonders. Woo!

Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, ...

Scientists discovered three minerals that had previously never been found naturally occurring on Earth.

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

In 2008, Canadian researchers led by McGill PhD student Jonathan O'Neil said they'd found the world's oldest rocks, formed 4.3 billion years ago in what is now northwestern Quebec. Such rocks would ...

In 2008, Canadian researchers said they'd found the world's oldest rocks in northern Quebec. The find was controversial. But after more than a decade of hard work, they believe they've really ...