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| BUGS GO SPELUNKING |
| Some of the world's largest and most spectacular caves were created by the tiniest builders imaginable, according to a team of US geologists. |
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| HIMALAYAS COULD HARBOUR MORE SULFIDE ORES |
| The Himalayan mountains may be a better place than the ocean floor to look for rich sulfide ores, according to Australian and Spanish research. |
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| METEORITE IMPACT CREATES NEW MINERAL |
| A new mineral made by a meteorite smashing into the Earth has been found by Chinese researchers. |
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| MELTING CRUST MAKES RICH MINERAL DEPOSITS: GEOLOGIST |
| A University of Toronto study suggests why giant gold and copper deposits are found at some volcanoes but not others, a finding that could point prospectors to large deposits of these and other valuable metals. |
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| CLUES TO EARLY HISTORY OF SOLAR SYSTEM'S OLDEST DIAMONDS |
| Simulating implantation of noble gases into terrestrial diamond grains, scientists from the Karpov Institute for Physical Chemistry (Moscow, Russia) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Mainz, Germany) infer a sequence of events in the early life of presolar diamonds in meteorites, the most common form of stardust available for laboratory study (Nature, August 9, 2001). |
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| 'LOST CITY' FOUND |
| Massive submarine mineral deposits, forming chimneys up to 60 metres high, are part of a new type of hydrothermal vent field known as the "Lost City" in the North Atlantic Ocean. |
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| VENUS HOLDS CLUES TO FINDING EARTH'S PLATINUM AND DIAMONDS |
| Venus is key to understanding what the early Earth was like during the late Archaean and early Proterozoic when precious resources were formed. While modern Venus is in a quiet state most of the time, is does enter into short periods of intense volcanic activity where the old surface of Venus is destroyed and a new one is created. In its early history when life evolved, Earth worked in a similar way to modern Venus. |
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