STUDENTS of mineralogy, miners, prospectors, and others interested in the determination of minerals by methods which do not involve the use of elaborate apparatus, will find this little book a useful ...

The MIST team, from left to right, Yueyang Jiang, Kirsten Siebach, Gelu Costin and Eleanor Moreland (Photo credit: Linda Fries/Rice University). Identifying a mineral might sound straightforward: ...

"The key for identification of rock-forming minerals provides an efficient and systematic approach to identifying minerals in thin-section. It is structured in the form of a dichotomous key, ...

PhotoSat announced the launch of its new regional hyperspectral exploration targeting (R-HET) product. The company, a global ...

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii. The minerals were identified ...

Researchers found that U.S. metal mines already contain large amounts of critical minerals that are mostly going unused.