Australia continues to dominate global iron ore supply but new supply and decarbonisation pressures are forcing a rethink.

Washington, D.C.– Much of our planet’s mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth’s chemical cycles were different from today’s. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion ...

The world’s largest iron ore deposit, found in Western Australia, may have formed 1.4 to 1.1 billion years ago during the breakup of a supercontinent and the formation of Australia. That would make ...

A colossal iron ore deposit discovered in Western Australia’s Hamersley region has left geologists stunned — not just for its vast scale, but for what it reveals about Earth’s deep-time tectonic ...

Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity. These zones create processes that concentrate minerals into ore deposits. High-temperature, water ...

In the last edition of our ongoing series on how planets get ore– those wonderful rocks rich in industrial minerals worth mining– we started talking about hydrothermal fluid deposits. Hydrothermal ...

Geologists have discovered the largest iron ore deposit valued at nearly $6 trillion in Western Australia. The deposit is located in the Hamersley region of the state. It contains around 55 billion ...

Israel has several deposits of iron ore, one of which may produce a yield of as much as 15,000,000 tons, according to the latest survey of world iron resources just published here by the United ...