Crayfish Fossils From Australia Provide Evolution Clues
February 10 | National Geographic
Newly found fossils of 106 million-year-old crayfish and their trace fossils might fill important gaps in the evolutionary history of... Mine Worker Shortage
October 3 | Timmins Press
The Ontario Mining Association syas that 93,000 mining jobs will open across Canada in the next decade but there will... A Grain of Sand (Image Gallery)
May 30 | Dr. Gary Greenberg
Dr. Gary Greenberg, author of A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder", shares some of his photomicrographs of colorful and... Revamping the 1872 Mining Act
July 23 | Forbes
The 1872 Mining Act was passed to help develop the mineral wealth of the western United States. Since then... More Street Level Photos of Sand Storms in China
May 15 | People.com.cn
The English edition of People.com.cn has a few photos of the recent sandstorms that are causing problems in Northwestern China.... Sand Fountain in Saudi Arabia
April 22 | Muxlim.tv
A short (91 seconds) video of what appears to be a sand fountain near Al-Ahsae City in eastern Saudi Arabia.... Fossils Being Returned to Argentina
November 29 | Tucson Citizen
A U.S. District Court Judge granted a U.S. Attorney's Office request to send four tons of fossils back to Argentina.... Metal Companies Forced to Explore for Water
June 20 | Purchasing.com
Water is scarce in the parts of Chile that produce copper and mining companies need lots of it. ... Contaminated Beach Sand
September 17 | USGS Newsroom
"Recent research has revealed that beach sand contains high concentrations of E. coli and other fecal indicator bacteria, often greatly... The Evolution of Minerals
November 17 | The Carnegie Institution
This article gives a brief overview of some ideas about how our modern-day minerals came to be. Plate tectonics and... | 
