Minerals form the building blocks of almost everything on Earth. They are made up of crystals—regular, repeating atomic ...

As a leader in the mining industry, I foresee magnesium olivine emerging as a pivotal element across sectors. Its significance extends beyond economic value, branching into realms crucial for both U.S ...

A North Sea beach is going green — literally — through an experiment using the emerald-colored mineral olivine, which is ground down to grains of sand and used to remove carbon in the atmosphere.

While the plates carry water to the Earth's interior, phase transitions of dry olivine, the main mineral in the plates, are thought to be responsible for deep-focus earthquakes and plate deformation.

Cocooned within the bowels of the Earth, one mineral’s metamorphosis into another may trigger some of the deepest earthquakes ever detected. These cryptic tremors — known as deep-focus earthquakes — ...

Arianna Morfin, a Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists Community College Internships program student, is part of a team studying olivine, an important mineral for carbon storage and a ...

The Earth's mantle is a solid layer that undergoes slow, continuous convective motion. But how do these rocks deform, thus making such motion possible, given that minerals such as olivine (the main ...