Rare earth elements are a family of 17 metallic elements with unusual properties that make them useful for specific ...

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological ...

Coal isn’t a mineral but a sedimentary rock, however this would give coal the same expedited permitting given to critical earth minerals like uranium and gold.

Deep coal-rocks in China are widely distributed and characterized by greater thickness, and coal-rock methane (CRM) resource potentials have been suggested to be huge. In recent years, the exploration ...

ROCK SALT. Cleveland generates massive amounts of salt from below ground annually, but few outside academia or the salt industry may know that the area's halite deposits were discovered generations ...

The landmark that comes days ahead of this financial year’s end, was driven by a 1.3 per cent rise in Coal India’s output, albeit on a large base, along with a substantive 29 per cent growth in the ...

It features scenes of farmers tilling soil, majestic mountain roads, sedimentary rock formations, and granite and marble quarries.

Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous period saw a boost ...

The contrast of physical properties of coal with the host rock also enables the use of geophysical methods in the lithological characterization of these subsurface layers. For example, carbonaceous ...

Sedimentary rocks are the major source of natural resources like oil, gas, coal, uranium etc. Sedimentary rocks like sand and gravel are used for construction purpose.