Interior adds phosphate, potash to final critical minerals list

The Interior Department on Thursday announced an updated critical minerals list that includes metallurgical coal and both ...
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Earth has more than 10,000 kinds of minerals. This massive new catalog describes them all.

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New process gets common rocks to trap carbon rapidly, cheaply

Scientists have discovered how to turn common minerals into materials that spontaneously remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In the lab, the materials pull CO2 from the air thousands ...
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Feldspar: The Common Mineral That's Always Wet

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Opta Minerals Acquires 94% of the Outstanding Common Shares of WGI Heavy Minerals and Plans Compulsory Acquisition of Remaining Shares

WATERDOWN, ONTARIO and COEUR D'ALENE, IDAHO--(Marketwire - Aug. 29, 2012) - Opta Minerals Inc. ("Opta Minerals") (OPM.TO) and WGI Heavy Minerals, Incorporated ("WGI") (WG.TO) jointly announced today ...
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What Is the Rarest Mineral on Earth?

Most human eyes have seen the mystical beauty of quartz, possibly without knowing it is the most common mineral on Earth, but which is the rarest? Minerals are scattered everywhere on our planet, from ...