Mineral Monday is a weekly video series exploring the many amazing minerals, fossils, and historic objects on display at the W.M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum as told by museum ...

Lyda Hill said she loved "picking up pretty pebbles as a kid." That love of rocks started a passion for science. Today, the Dallas philanthropist and entrepreneur supports science in many ...

Fluorine gas (F 2), which has been called chemistry’s hellcat, is so reactive that chemists have long assumed it does not occur in nature. Now researchers in Munich have evidence that the gas exists ...

China has announced major discoveries of various critical minerals, including rare earths and fluorite, bolstering its reserves of the resources essential for the hi-tech, new energy and defence ...

Tivan has been awarded a cash grant of A$7.4m ($4.7m) from the Australian Government's International Partnerships in Critical Minerals Programme for its Speewah Fluorite Project. Situated in the ...

China ranked first globally in reserves of 14 mineral types and in the production of 17 types last year, the Ministry of ...

This release is available in German. Fluorine is the most reactive chemical element. That is why it is not found in nature in its elemental form, but only in compounds, such as fluorite – that was the ...