Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

Greenland’s harsh environment, lack of key infrastructure and difficult geology have prevented anyone from building a mine to ...

The state of Alaska is preparing to give away millions of dollars worth of gravel to public corporations, a move that would ...

In this video, I take on the challenge of making one of the world’s rarest blue paints using only rocks. Inspired by ...

Three of Greenland’s REE-bearing deposits, buried deep beneath the ice, may be among the world’s largest by volume.

REEs such as niobium, tantalum and ytterbium have been discovered in igneous rock layers – similar to the discovery (and ...

There’s a long history of hard rock mining in Southern Colorado. Now the federal government is updating the region’s geological maps to expand the search for critical minerals and rare earth elements.

After a slight dip in numbers during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, the Whanganui Rock and Mineral Club has uncovered ...

Greenland rare earth mining faces harsh climate, weak infrastructure and tough geology—limiting Trump’s supply-chain plans vs ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that a newly identified niobium-rich deposit in central Australia formed during the early breakup of an ancient supercontinent.

As Greenland’s ice melts and water flows into the ocean, sea level changes, but in ways that might not be intuitive. Away from the island, sea level is rising about an inch each ...