For the first time, a high-pressure calcium silicate perovskite (CaSiO3) has been identified as a naturally occurring mineral from Earth’s lower mantle, researchers report. The newly discovered ...

Oregon State University pigment researchers are using a rare mineral discovered in Norway more than a century ago as a road ...

News tagged with mineral structures. Date. 6 hours 12 hours 1 day 3 days all. Rank. Last day 1 week 1 month all. ... Pyroxenes are a major group of rock-forming silicate minerals that generally ...

Researchers have developed a new series of inorganic pigments in vivid shades of red, yellow and orange have been made by modifying the structure of a rare Norwegian mineral. The pigments are durable, ...

China has discovered a new silicate mineral, known as Nipeiite-(Ce), with the highest cerium content found so far, in a rare-earth mine in Central China's Henan Province. The mineral has been ...

During their laboratory research, Kanan and Chen adopted a similar process but replaced the sand with another mineral containing magnesium and silicate ions. When heated, the minerals exchange ...