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 compelling case that it does ...

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

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

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.

By confirming the age of these rocks, and that they might just be the oldest rocks on Earth, we’re finally opening the door ...

A belt of swirly, stripey rock in the northeast reaches of Canada looks like it contains some of the oldest minerals ever ...

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

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

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 ...

"Everything's different," said Glen Rocca, Vice President of the Gem and Mineral Society. "It's like breaking open a geode, no two are ever the same.