More than a billion years ago, a shallow basin in what is now northern Ontario held a subtropical lake. The setting likely resembled modern Death Valley, where heat drives evaporation and leaves salt ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

Through the analyses of gases and fluids preserved within salt crystals, the team extended the direct record of Earth’s ...

What is shelf life on a breath of air? Well, it just so happens that back in northern Ontario, it’s 1.4 billion years. Trapped within crystals of rock salt formed while a subtropical lake dried up, ...

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Scientists analyzed halite samples from 830 million years ago using optical techniques. Inside the samples, they found microorganisms such as bacteria, algae and fungi that may still be alive. NASA ...

Additional analytical work was conducted as part of the estimation, the results of which help to define a thick section of high purity halite. For example, the best halite intersection, from drillhole ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

Trapped gases in 1.4 billion-year-old salt crystals reveal ancient secrets about oxygen and carbon dioxide levels on early ...

Using a 95.0% lower base cut-off for sodium chloride, the Captain Cook Halite Resource Estimate is classified as "Inferred" and demonstrates that there is 908 million tonnes of high purity halite ...

ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR--(Marketwired - Jan 14, 2016) - Red Moon Potash Inc. ("the Company" - "Red Moon") (TSX VENTURE:RMK) announces that it has received a National Instrument 43-101 ...