Gypsum, a source of calcium and sulfur, can benefit crops and soils. When recovered from power plant smokestacks, it brings the additional benefits of recycling. Warren Dick has worked with gypsum for ...

Composed mainly of calcium sulfate dihydrate, gypsum is a naturally occurring mineral used in cement, drywall, plaster and other building materials. Scientists have now devised a method of creating ...

Gypsum is a naturally occurring mineral which is often used in industrial processes and which in nature, if left alone for thousands of years, can grow into huge translucent, towering and eerie, ...

Mineral scaling, a significant issue in membrane desalination, reduces water recovery rates and diminishes system performance ...

Historians have long known that the Romans sometimes covered their dead in liquid gypsum, a mineral used in plaster, before placing the bodies in their tombs. Still, the ritual—and the reasons behind ...

Eagle Materials, USG, and Continental Building Products are profiting from improving gypsum sales. Check out what Eagle Materials has to tell investors. Construction spending is on the rise, which is ...

Two more Western Slope communities have committed funding toward the Colorado River District’s $99 million acquisition of the Shoshone Water Rights. The town of Breckenridge pledged $100,000, and the ...

A U.S. District Court judge dismissed all federal claims against Clark County in the long-running legal dispute over development on the privately-owned Blue Diamond Hill gypsum mine near Red Rock ...

Gypsum will add a roundabout this year at one of the town’s primary intersections. Bids were let Friday for a complicated project at the intersection of U.S. Highway 6 and Valley Road, just west of ...