Less carcinogenic, chrysotile or white asbestos was allowed to be imported and used for tyre and ... Praising tremolite ...

There's no question that the world has a trash problem. E-waste is no exception. The 2024 Global E-waste Monitor, published ...

Two planned mineral sands mines in western Victoria have received approvals for environmental plans. Farmers near Swan Hill and Horsham say the Victorian government has ignored their concerns.

The mineral embargo is the latest piece of an extensive initiative by China over the past nearly two decades to replace imports with domestic production. On Dec. 3, the same day the Ministry of ...

This announcement likely means that over 20 mineral items – encompassing both metals and chemicals – are banned from being exported from China to the United States. The resulting supply ...

The nation has signaled it’s prepared to hit back harder still, in ways that could inflict serious economic pain on its biggest economic rival. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers ...

China has banned rare mineral exports like gallium and germanium to the US, intensifying trade tensions. The move threatens US tech and defense industries reliant on these materials. On Tuesday ...

The Chinese ban on superhard mineral exports could provoke particular unhappiness in America’s national security community. That ban appeared to be aimed at Chinese exports of tungsten ...

There's a mineral so rare that only one specimen of it has ever been found in the entire world. It's called kyawthuite (cha-too-ite), a tiny, tawny-hued grain weighing just a third of a gram (1.61 ...

It is the rarest mineral known to science, with only a single specimen ever discovered. The only sample found thus far, weighing a mere 1.61 carats (0.3 grams), has sparked immense intrigue among ...

Minerals are distinguished by various chemical and physical properties. Differences in chemical composition and crystal structure distinguish the various species. Within a mineral species there may be ...