With a keen eye and an understanding of toxicity, you can help to identify deadly minerals in your surrounding. Deadliest Rocks & Minerals Chalcanthite - CuSO 4 ·5H 2 O ...

Crystals and gemstones can be more than just beautiful—they can be deadly. Minerals like arsenopyrite, cinnabar, galena, and ...

Exhibit in the US city of Baltimore shows how mercury, arsenic, lead and orpiment were used to illustrate and bind books ...

From supernatural capes to sleeping caps, asbestos fibres once had a wide range of bizarre uses. In the minerals gallery at the Natural History Museum in London, amid rows of ornately carved ...

As minerals fuel deadly conflicts in Africa, a leading cardinal urged local churches to ensure that Africa's abundant resources contribute to the benefit of its populations instead of hurting them.

Size doesn’t matter: Rock composition determines how deadly a meteorite impact is The minerology of the rocks that a meteorite hits, rather than the size of the impact, determines how deadly an ...