New drilling results at Conchas reveal surface areas rich in lithium and rubidium, a discovery that could potentially end reliance on China.

Six months after Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) extracted first gallium from its Quebec alumina refinery, Australia’s largest aluminium ...

Shiny silver and gray rock. The rock is round but looks sort of squished into layers. If you look closely at the surface, you can see different minerals reflecting light. Muscovite and biotite mica ...

ABSTRACT: The immobilisation of radionuclides in groundwater environments cannot be explained solely by the empirical models. These empirical models are not sensitive to the varying conditions that ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Nanoscale reduced volumes with novel properties can be produced from 2D materials like ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Materials scientists can now use insight from a very common mineral and well-established earthquake and avalanche statistics to quantify how hostile environmental interactions may ...

In response to gradual nanoindentation, the surface of muscovite mica deforms by sudden stochastic nanometer-scale displacement bursts. Here, the statistics of these displacement events are ...

Researchers are leveraging insights from mica and earthquake statistics to understand material degradation in infrastructures like buildings, bridges, and solar panels. They tested mica under varying ...

LKAB Minerals, Ltd. have processed mica (also known as common mica or muscovite) at their Derby location since the 1950s. The material is used as a mineral filler for a wide range of applications in ...

† Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstrasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria ‡ Institute of Solid State Physics, Graz University of Technology, ...

In this work muscovite was ultrasonically treated to obtain composites with post-industrial wood plastic residues. The muscovite was ultrasonicated for 30 or 60 min and mixed with the polymeric matrix ...