Scientists have discovered the single largest repository of gold in the world that makes Fort Knox look like a piggy bank. Making up 99.999% of all the precious metal on the planet, it's just sitting ...

Rare earth minerals have become crucial to almost every sector and the global economy at large, drawing significant attention to the countries that possess these vital resources. Access to "rare ...

Chinese officials have announced the discovery of a massive deposit of high-quality gold ore, potentially worth around $83 billion, which could end up being the largest known deposit of the precious ...

Gold deposits are often found in places with intense volcanic activity, and scientists have long known that the sparkly substance gets there with the help of magma, the molten rock that fuels ...

Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity. These zones create processes that concentrate minerals into ore deposits. High-temperature, water ...

Geologists in China have uncovered one of the largest gold reserves in recent history, a discovery that could significantly reshape the global mining landscape. The supergiant deposit, buried deep ...

Geologists have known for decades that gold forms in quartz with the help of earthquakes, but now they have worked out exactly how the setting and seismic waves combine to form large nuggets. When you ...