The 54 pound chunk from Mars was found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 and could set a record when it appears at auction this ...

Was the Iberian Peninsula’s Bronze Age more advanced technologically than history has given it credit for? New study of the ...

To answer these questions, it is easiest to start with the amount of gold that humans have mined to date. The U.S. Geological ...

In a remote part of Western Australia, geologists have uncovered a mineral deposit of staggering size—one that promises to rewrite not only the map of global iron production but also our ...

Iron ore prices have held well above $90 per ton, below which high-cost miners struggle to break even, despite trade tensions between the world's top two economies that have fueled concerns about ...

This discovery will help to study the composition of the cores of planets, as iron meteorites are considered their fragments. Sergey Erykalov, Director of the Environmental Department of one of ...

The iron contained in these ores can range from between 20% to as much as 70%. These iron yields are important in determining how profitable mining is. Statistics on iron production generally break ...

Jambon and his colleagues want to find out more about the development of iron smelting in Poland and so the latest study helped eliminate objects with metal from meteorites. Meteoritic iron was ...

The high nickel content in the iron indicated that the jewellery was crafted from an 'out of this world' metal. 08:00, Sat, Mar 1, 2025 Archaeologists have uncovered an “extraterrestrial metal ...

The earliest known iron artefacts - nine tubular beads - were made from meteoritic iron, which comes from fallen meteorites. Identifying iron-bearing rocks is the first challenge.

Częstochowa Raków, early Iron Age cemetery, Archaeological Reserve. Credit: Michał Bugaj / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Scientists in Poland have uncovered ancient Iron Age ornaments and jewelry crafted from ...