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Latest 10 Resources
Durán reported in mid-June 2025 that when a planet is spinning so fast that its days last just 18 hours, racing against time to catch a breath. Over billions of years, Earth’s rotation has been slowing down little by little, stretching our days to a full 24 hours. But this slow and steady deceleration isn’t just a cosmic curiosity, it may hold the key to why we have breathable oxygen in the atmosphere today.
A groundbreaking study reveals a surprising connection between the length of Earth’s day and the rise of oxygen, an element that...
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Gustafson and Jones reported in mid-June 2025 that America’s need for antimony is not going away, but it can’t produce what it needs on its own. Following the recent approval of a final federal permit, an American company will begin the process of reopening an antimony mine in Idaho—a renewed mining initiative that marks an important step for the United States’ quest for critical mineral independence.
Antimony, whose supply is dominated by China, is a critical mineral for defense production. The mineral’s utility stems from its...
Laila reports for ECONews in early June 2025 that with America preparing to meet the country’s energy demands while utilizing AI, the country requires the supply of one vital fuel for nuclear power, uranium. Without the supply of uranium, America will be unable to meet the energy demand that it wishes to meet successfully. The main obstacle is that America will need up to 180,000,000 to 200,000,000 pounds of uranium annually.
Old pit of uranium mining of the past or just a scarry p...
Wikipedia indicated, as of 2024, uranium mining in the United States produced 224,331 pounds (101.8 tonnes) of U3O8 (aka Yellowcake) in 2023, 15% of the 2018 production of 1,447,945 pounds (656.8 tonnes) of U3O8. The 2023 production represents 0.4% of the uranium fuel requirements of the US's nuclear power reactors for the year.
Example: South Texas Uranium Province
Production came from five in-situ leaching plants, four in Wyoming (Nichols Ran...
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Caldwell reported in a master's thesis in 2018 that the Grants Mineral Belt of northwestern New Mexico was mined from the 1940s to the late 1980s, with more than 340 million pounds of U3O8 extracted during that time. Currently, the Grants Mineral Belt contains over 400 million pounds of U3O8, once again bringing the region under consideration for inexpensive in-situ recovery (ISR) of uranium.
Figure 2: Cross section for study area displaying the major units hosting uranium mineralization
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Shannak and two co-authors reported in early 2025 that after reviewing the global uranium market and assessing whether future supply can meet growing demand through 2050, focusing on market and geopolitical drivers. A dual approach was used, combining econometric analysis and uranium supply curve modeling.
Schematic of the methodology for the two approaches followed in this study,
combining the ...
Site Splitting at Site M3 in Allanite-(Ce) - 2022 
Rare Earth Deposits & Mining
Date posted: 06/09/25
Shen and 6 co-authors reported in 2022 that the crystal structure of allanite-(Ce), with composition (Ca1.0REE0.9-0.1)Σ2.0(Al1.46 Fe3+ 0.52Fe2+0.76Mg0.12Ti0.15)Σ3.01Si3O12(OH) from the Xinfeng rare earth element (REE)-bearing granite in Guangdong Province, China.
(a) Molecular structure of allanite-(Ce) showing the split sites;
(b) refined polyhedral style structure...
Tognetti reported in early June 2025 that fission-powered propulsion will advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Artist’s illustration of a nuclear propulsion spacecraft. Credit: NASA
This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC 2025) hopes to address as a pair of researchers from India investigated the financial, logistical, and reliability of using fissio...
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Brown, and 11 co-authors, reported in 2016 that they used uranium (U) isotope ratios to detect and quantify the extent of natural U reduction in groundwater across a roll-front redox gradient. Their study was conducted at the Smith Ranch-Highland in situ recovery (ISR) U mine in eastern Wyoming, USA, where economic U deposits occur in the Paleocene Fort Union formation.
To evaluate the fate of aqueous U in and adjacent to the ore body, we investigated the chemical composition and isotope ratios of groundwater samples from the roll-front typ...
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Glantz reported in early June 2025 that for decades, Bangalore, India, has been an incubator for scientific talent, sending newly minted Ph.D.s around the world to do groundbreaking research. In an ordinary year, many aim their sights at labs in the United States.With the welcome mat withdrawn for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences.
Dr. Raj Ladher, a professor at the National Center for Biological Sc...
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