The Asteroids Are Coming! The USGS is setting its sights high according to a September 5, 2018 report from Newsweek. The United States Geological Survey’s research geologist Laszlo Kestay explained in an interview at Space.com that “The USGS realized that our congressional mandate to assess natural resources extends to space.” (more…)
10 Industrial Minerals Everyone Has in Their Pocket Industrial minerals are anything but glamorous. At first mention, most folks conjure up images of sand, limestone, or perhaps clay for bricks. They are the rawest of raw materials and, as such, they play critically important but invisible roles in the infrastructure…