[Nick] is working on a prototype of a coffee table sand plotter that draws patterns in sand a lot like a zen rock garden. [Nick]’s zen rock garden uses a magnet to draw a ball bearing across ...

The world is running out of sand. About 50 billion tons of sand and gravel are extracted annually, most of which is used for ...

Brazilian Rare Earths Limited (ASX:BRE) is pleased to announce high-grade tantalum assays from the hard rock ultra-high grade REE-Nb-Sc-U mineral ...

Exploding population numbers and the knock on need for development have made sand the second most used natural commodity on the planet after water. Billions and billions of tonnes are being used ...

One statistic especially stands out: China alone has used more construction sand in the last few years than the United States used in the entire 20th century. Even worse, sand is so valuable that ...

In that case, it can be mesmerizing like this Arduino-driven kinetic sand table. What you can’t see. Image via [thang010146] on YouTube Like many of these builds, it all started with an ordinary ...

Sand is often extracted from rivers for use in construction Does the world have a shortage of sand? At first, that might sound like a peculiar question. After all, sand covers vast expanses of ...

The latest drilling results intersected numerous wide intervals of high (+10% TREO) and ultra-high grade REE-Nb-Sc-U (+20% TREO) mineralised zones under the free-dig monazite sand mineralisation ...

"It's used to tell people where to go, when, and what for." Pagers grabbed headlines on Tuesday when thousands used by members of militant group Hezbollah were detonated simultaneously across ...