zircon
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Traditional dating methods usually rely on minerals like zircon or apatite found near fossils, but these minerals are not consistently available at every site.
From Science Daily
Analyst Matthew Hope says the Chinese market is weak right now, and one of Iluka’s competitors has reduced its zircon price for China.
For decades, Iluka has been mining zircon in Australia - a key ingredient in ceramics, and titanium dioxide used in the pigmentation of paint, plastics and paper.
From BBC
Those crystals in Australia, called zircons, form only where there is plate subduction, and subduction can happen only on a planet with active plate tectonics.
From New York Times
Tiny grains of a mineral called zircon might have witnessed the fall of rain on Earth’s earliest dry land some 4 billion years ago, when oceans likely covered most of the planet.
From Science Magazine
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