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Hunting for a lost ship

Graham Chandler

Archaeologists at the Iziko Museums of Cape Town are using geophysics to help focus their search for the Meermin, a historically important Dutch slave ship that was wrecked off the Cape in 1766. Continue reading this article

Rare Earth Exploration

Virginia Heffernan

Once considered little more than geological curiosities, rare earth elements (REEs) are beginning to generate media buzz as their role in green applications such as hybrid cars and wind turbines becomes apparent. Continue reading this article

Exploring beneath the La Rioja Valley Basin

Graham Chandler

A San Juan University team blends old and new data to better understand an important sedimentary basin in the foothills of Argentina. Continue reading this article

Deconstructing Plate Tectonics

Graham Chandler

The Geological Survey of Norway designs a convenient tool that looks back in geological time and re-creates continental drift; helping the oil and gas industry to model offshore basins. Continue reading this article

Detecting Deeper Deposits of Uranium

Virginia Heffernan

The new wave of explorers is deploying a mix of tools to find deeper mineral deposits. RadonX is a new radon emanometry tool that’s helping to delineate buried uranium mineralization.
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Discovery at the Bingham Canyon Mine

Virginia Heffernan

It’s hard to imagine a better poster child for the practice of marrying historical data with modern processing technology than the recent molybdenum discovery at the Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah. Continue reading this article