Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth...

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Joe Gwinn

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Following up on postings about where ore bodies come from. Part of
the story is geochemical, but not all:

A new origins-based system for classifying minerals reveals the huge
geochemical imprint that life has left on Earth. It could help us
identify other worlds with life too.

..<https://www.quantamagazine.org/life-helps-make-almost-half-of-all-minerals-20220701/>

Joe Gwinn
 
On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:10:40 PM UTC-4, Joe Gwinn wrote:
Following up on postings about where ore bodies come from. Part of
the story is geochemical, but not all:

A new origins-based system for classifying minerals reveals the huge
geochemical imprint that life has left on Earth. It could help us
identify other worlds with life too.

Why bother? They\'re too far away to make any use of it.

.<https://www.quantamagazine.org/life-helps-make-almost-half-of-all-minerals-20220701/

Joe Gwinn
 

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