The magnetic properties of lodestone, also known as magnetite, were documented in China more than 2,000 years ago, and Chinese sailors were navigating with lodestone compasses as early as 900 years ...

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Perth-based Gindalbie has hired PricewaterhouseCoopers to advise on selling Lodestone, an undeveloped 1.5 billion tonne magnetite deposit about 45km from its flagship Karara iron ore mine in the ...

Using the latest nanofabrication methods, physicists have discovered a surprising new electronic property in one of the earliest-known and most-studied magnetic minerals on Earth -- lodestone. Also ...