Tailings refer to the leftover waste material after valuable minerals are extracted from crushed ore, forming a slurry of ...

Ore deposits are scarce. Their discovery consumes considerable time and resources and only about one in every thousand prospects explored by companies is eventually developed into a mine. Deposits ...

World's largest iron ore deposit found to date transforms theories about ore formation and should generate trillions of ...

Southern Arizona has numerous sites known for their pyroxene minerals, from Twin Buttes south of Tucson, to Ajo, to the Chiricahua, Santa Rita and Patagonia mountain ranges. Pyroxenes are classified ...