Science news articles about 'mineral deposition'

  • Opinion: Preparing for the next minerals boom

    The mining industry needs to start seeking out Australia's next wealth of mineral deposits in preparation for renewed global demand, not cutting jobs and draining the resources we have left, argues ...
  • Finding trapped miners

    ... distinct seismic wave "fingerprint." So if miners are trapped and bang the metal plate at the nearest ... images identifying the location of oil, gas and mineral deposits. He will switch to adjunct status ...
  • New map of Arctic could point to Canadian gas, minerals

    ... , Norway, Russia and other polar nations offers new hints about where Canada might find energy and mineral deposits across its vast North, says the geologist who co-led the ...
  • Japan to use deep-sea probes to search for minerals

    Japan plans to deploy unmanned probes to scour the sea-floor around the resource-poor island nation for mineral deposits, a government-backed scientific organisation said Thursday.
  • New analyzers to unlock mineral value

    ... analysers and techniques that could help unlock the value contained in Australia's mineral deposits and improve processing performance, according to the October issue of Process. Machine-mounted ...
  • CAVE PICTURES: Mineral Crusts, Ooze Found to Be Poop

    Butterscotch ooze, pink crusts, and blue-green goo are just some of the multicolored mineral deposits being excreted by cave-dwelling microbes, researchers have announced.
  • Mars' water appears to have been too salty to support life

    ... Scott M. McLennan, Tosca analyzed salt deposits in four-billion-year-old Martian rock ... like Earth." Tosca, Knoll, and McLennan studied mineral deposits in Martian rock to calculate the "water activity ...
  • Saving teeth by using periodontal ligament regeneration

    ... to these artificial root and bone surfaces present in the model by creating an enzyme-mediated mineral deposition on the surfaces. By subsequently applying loading to the tooth root (mimicking the ...
  • Active submarine volcanoes found near Fiji

    ... and Mt Isa. It may also provide exploration geologists with clues about new undiscovered mineral deposits in Australia. "These deep-sea features are important in understanding the influences that ...
  • Could Global Warming Cause More Kidney Stones? [News]

    ... global warming. A new study warns that as many as 2.3 million more people may develop these mineral deposits in their kidneys by the year 2050 as the result of a warming world. The reason? There's a ...
  • August 2008 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

    ... of metals—make this hydrothermal field an exciting natural laboratory to investigate mineral deposit formation at conditions that previously could only be simulated in the laboratory. Temperature ...
  • N.M. cavers chart unique `snowy' river of crystals

    ... , a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set foot. Their headlamps illuminate mud-covered walls, gypsum crystals and mineral deposits....
  • Roads bring death and fear to forest elephants

    ... space decreases, it will likely result in loss of access to food and important mineral deposits. This will most likely result in aggressive negative behavior among elephants from different social ...
  • Cave's climate clues show ancient empires declined during dry spell

    ... impurities — such as organic matter flushed into the cave by surface rain — trapped in the layered mineral deposits, Orland determined annual rainfall levels for the years the stalagmite was growing, ...
  • Technology opens promise, perils of ocean mining

    ... There's gold in that thar sea floor. Silver, copper, zinc and lead, too. The problem is, it's a mile or two underwater and encased in massive mineral deposits that layer a dark, mysterious world....

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