Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Researchers say they might have discovered the oldest rocks on Earth. The rocks in question are a belt of swirly, ...

In fact, there are just under 6,000 different minerals on Earth that we know about, the outlet said. Despite being found in the same location, the three minerals are drastically different.

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new ...

The formation, and transformation, of rocks changes their isotopic fingerprint. For example, rocks that form from cooling lava have vastly different signatures than clays that come from weathered ...

Rocks, minerals, fossils and findings ... Now, whether you are going to find them nowadays or not is a different story." Calcite, fluorite, graphite, garnet and other minerals have turned up in ...