For 200 years, scientists have failed to grow a common mineral in the laboratory under the conditions believed to have formed it naturally. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan ...

Dolomite mountains: the Cristallo massif in the Italian Alps contains large quantities of dolomite. (Courtesy: kallerna/CC BY-SA 4.0) Dolomite is one of the most abundant carbonate minerals on Earth, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Yet scientists have failed to grow significant amounts of ...

Mountains formed of dolomite, a calcium magnesium carbonate crystal, abound. And yet researchers have struggled for hundreds of years to form the mineral in a lab at close to ambient conditions. A new ...

Dolomite is a material that has been around for ages, but it was only recently that it sparked the interest of many Filipinos. Earlier this month, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources ...

For the past two centuries, scientists have struggled to replicate a common mineral in the laboratory under conditions believed to mimic its natural formation. However, a breakthrough has been ...

The formation of the mineral dolomite is still puzzling scientists. Researchers have now shown that bacteria can facilitate the formation of dolomite. The study has been published online in the ...

CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Drummond Island sits at the very eastern edge of the Upper Peninsula. It runs mainly on tourism but is also home to a dolomite quarry. The material mined there ...