Chromium turns the corundum pink or red, and that's how we get rubies. What's more, whole other minerals – such as rutile (titanium dioxide) and zircon – can get trapped within sapphires as ...

The bulk of the soil solid fraction is constituted by soil minerals, which exert significant direct and indirect influences on the supply and availability of most nutrient elements. The main ...

Did you know that rubies and sapphires are essentially the same stone? Both popular precious gemstones are varieties of the mineral corundum, with the presence of chromium being what gives rubies ...

Oct. 9, 2024 — Scientists have long wondered why animals get the DNA inside their mitochondria, the cell's energy center, only from their mothers. New research explains why and offers hope for ...

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On August 15 this year, China announced its decision to restrict the export of antimony, a critical mineral used in strategic sectors such as defence, for military equipment such as missiles ...

The United States announced the establishment of a minerals-security finance network with its allies on Monday, the latest step in its bid to halt China’s global dominance of critical minerals.

The Critical Minerals Security Program is a groundbreaking initiative providing leadership as the United States races to build the resilient minerals supply chains needed for national, economic, and ...

Javier Blas is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy and commodities. He is coauthor of “The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources ...

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Laying out her economic agenda this week, Vice President Harris backed increasing domestic minerals production and creating a minerals stockpile. A press release from her campaign said it would ...