Tag: Minerals
How do you make a giant gold nugget? Take a vein of quartz, add a few thousand earthquakes
Gold nuggets grow much bigger than they should – and electricity produced by earthquakes may be the reason why.
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2 Sep, 09:00 PM
Australia’s largest iron ore deposits are 1 billion years younger than we thought
How did Australia end up with so much iron ore? What we discovered in Western Australia redefines how we think about iron deposits – and provides clues on how we might find more.
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22 Jul, 09:00 PM
Not just space rocks: 6 things we’ve learned about Earth from meteorites and comets
Vast amounts of space rocks litter our Solar System, and sometimes land on Earth’s surface. There are many things we can learn from them.
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15 Jul, 09:00 PM