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Thanks to Dilong Drilling for Exhibiting our Discoverer core trays at a recent drillers trade show.
The mysterious origins of the Sahara desert
Few places on earth outside of the polar latitudes are as harsh and desolate as the Sahara desert. Covering about 10 million square kilometres, the desert is the similar in size to the United States or China. It consists [...]
Fighting Vulcan: How to Stop a Lava Flow Cold
We tend to think of volcanoes as unstoppable forces of nature that we live next to at our own peril. Despite this, an ingrained human instinct to take control of our environment has sometimes pushed people to try to [...]
A Look at the Uses and Economics of Geosynthetic Materials
When we think about important pieces of technology used for mining or oil and gas operations, things like drilling rigs, diamond core drills, or processing equipment might come to mind. However, as a recent infographic published by Visual Capitalist [...]
New Study Highlights the Role of Insects in Global Geologic Processes
A study recently published in the journal geology highlights the important role that Earth’s smallest animals, the insects, plan in global scale geologic processes. Insects might seem small, but a look at some statistics counters that view: it has [...]
Robots and the Future of Mining
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the role drones might play in our society in the future. From controversial military applications to automated delivery robots for companies such as Amazon, drones seem poised to have a major [...]
Solnitsata: A Society Built on Salt
Recent excavations at Provadia-Solnitsata, a 7,500 year old archeological site in southern Bulgaria that represents one of the earliest towns ever discovered in Europe, may help shed light on the links between mining, wealth, and trade in the ancient [...]
The Long, Strange History of Phosphate Mining
When asked to think of a critical mineral resource, one that nations fiercely compete for, most people might mention oil and gas, or copper, or rare earth elements. These economic resources are well known for their importance to modern [...]
Exploring the World of Copper
Visualcapitalist.com has produced many interesting mining infographics in the past. This time, they've developed a two part infographic about the history of copper and current trends in supply an demand. The first infographic, which describes the history of copper [...]
Drilling into Active Faults to Study Earthquakes
In 2011, a major earthquake struck the city of Christchurch on the South Island of New Zealand, destroying much of that city's downtown and resulting in major loss of life. The culprit for that earthquake? A fault that had [...]