A 460-million-year-old fossil has been donated to UNESCO today in a ceremony that celebrated the owner of the quarry in which it was found and the Arouca UNESCO Global Geopark.
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Komatsu trials construction equipment for use in space
Komatsu has applied to become a part of Japan’s project for Promoting the Development of Innovative Technologies for Outer Space Autonomous Construction.
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Stone tools discovered within former Roman enclave in Morocco
An analysis has been conducted on the stone tools recovered from a former outpost within the Roman Empire. The discovery highlights how ancient bakers and millers relied on the local geology to acquire the correct tools.
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Origins of glass shards in the Chilean desert explained
A theory has now been proposed for how shards of glass first discovered a decade ago in a South American desert were formed.
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Metallica sees silica sands quadruple in 2021
Metallica Minerals has increased its mineral resource by 40 per cent at the Cape Flattery silica sand project in Queensland, increasing confidence in its value to a growing market.
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Old quarry shares last hurrah before waters rise
A quarry in Virginia, United States, is weeks away from brimming with ground water to serve a nearby water treatment plant and the 17,000 people it serves.
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Canadian quarry reveals big-headed Burgess Shale fossil
Canadian palaeontologists have discovered one of the largest fossils for its era in a quarry site of Burgess Shale at Kootenay National Park.
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Youngest Moon rocks on record only 2 billion years old
Curtin University researchers have helped to refine our understanding of the solar system’s timeline, dating the youngest Moon rocks ever discovered.
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Australia a critical case study in billion-year-old geology
Researchers from the University of Adelaide have investigated a billion-year-old geological mystery which could aid in the mapping of current day critical minerals.
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Why is vibration so hard to predict accurately?
Kim Henley and Rob Domotor, of Orica, explain how stress waves work and how vibrations are determined in rock formations.
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