{"id":166070,"date":"2023-06-19T23:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T04:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/how-ai-can-help-find-new-minerals-on-earth-and-other-planets"},"modified":"2023-06-19T23:29:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T04:29:02","slug":"how-ai-can-help-find-new-minerals-on-earth-and-other-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/how-ai-can-help-find-new-minerals-on-earth-and-other-planets","title":{"rendered":"How AI Can Help Find New Minerals On Earth And Other Planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-ai-can-help-find-new-minerals-on-earth-and-other-planets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rocks and minerals contribute essential raw materials for any civilization, and in a technological society minerals (and the rare elements they contain) are especially sought after. In the past, most discoveries of mineral deposits have resulted from perseverance and luck.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 200 years scientists realized that minerals are not distributed randomly. Many of the over 5,000 different minerals occurring on Earth exist in a so-called paragenesis. A paragenesis is a mineral assemblage formed under specific physico-chemical rules, like a certain chemical composition of the host rock or when the right conditions \u2014 like temperature and pressure \u2014 are met.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A machine learning model can predict the locations of minerals on Earth \u2014 and potentially other planets \u2014 by taking advantage of patterns in mineral associations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocks and minerals contribute essential raw materials for any civilization, and in a technological society minerals (and the rare elements they contain) are especially sought after. In the past, most discoveries of mineral deposits have resulted from perseverance and luck. In the last 200 years scientists realized that minerals are not distributed randomly. Many of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}