People living in the Pacific nation are divided on whether to push ahead with deep-sea mining for polymetallic nodules.

recently suggested pyrite – fool’s gold – could be a source of lithium as well. The researchers analyzed 15 sedimentary rock samples from the Appalachian basin. They were dated to the middle ...

a layer of rock containing multiple well-preserved fossils. The animals preserved there lived in a hostile, low oxygen environment. That allowed iron pyrite, commonly known as fool's gold ...

Normally people come in with fools gold or other rocks that look like gold, Mr Kamp says. "But he pulled this rock out and as he dropped it into my hand he said, 'Do you think there's A$10,000 ...