It all started with an overheard conversation between some camel herders. The year was 1916, and Gaston Ripert, a French army captain, had been injured and sent to recover in the small town of ...

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more likely if the space rock is made of the same chemicals as metal-rich ...

A worker looks at a shard of graphite ore at the Nouveau Monde Graphite Matawinie Mine in Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Quebec, Canada, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc. bought a site ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Titanium Mineral Concentrates (Ilmenite and Rutile) World, Regions and Countries Market Review 2019-2024 and Forecast to 2034" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets ...

Malawi’s Kasiya Rutile-Graphite Project is on track to become a global leader in critical minerals, with projections of $645 million (K1.2 trillion) in annual revenues over 25 years and a net present ...

RIO Tinto has increased its investment in a specialist minerals project in Malawi agreeing to exercise options in Sydney-listed Sovereign Metals. The mining group will buy about 35.4 million share ...

Rio Tinto (ASX, LON: RIO) is investing A$18.5 million ($12.4m) to increase its stake in Australia’s Sovereign Metals (ASX: SVM) (LON: SVML), which is advancing the Kasiya rutile-graphite project in ...

A team of material scientists led by Prof. Qi Li from Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, China recently outlined the state of inducing piezoelectricity in distorted rutile TiO 2 for enhanced ...

Sembehun is a globally significant Tier 1 natural rutile deposit, which presents a commercially attractive development opportunity. The project has estimated ore reserves of 173.7-million tonnes at ...

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In 1916, a French consular official reported finding a giant “iron hill” deep in the Sahara desert, roughly 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Chinguetti, Mauritania—purportedly a meteorite (technically a ...

Iluka Resources on Tuesday said it will extend the suspension of one of its synthetic rutile operations due to weak demand, as it reported a fall in annual mineral sands sales and revenue. The ...