There’s a saying in mine country, the kind that sometimes shows up on bumper stickers: “If it can’t be grown, it has to be mined.” Before mining can ever start, though, there has to be ore in the ...

The past few months, we’ve been giving you a quick rundown of the various ways ores form underground; now the time has come to bring that surface-level understanding to surface-level processes.

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Iron ore sintering is a vital thermal process that transforms fine particles into porous, mechanically robust agglomerates, intended to enhance the performance of blast furnaces. The process is ...

At a first glance, the Witwatersrand basin, the largest known gold resource on our planet, is not automatically related to ocean research. However, in its 3 billion years old geological history, the ...

A colossal iron ore deposit discovered in Western Australia’s Hamersley region has left geologists stunned — not just for its vast scale, but for what it reveals about Earth’s deep-time tectonic ...