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 ...

Most people associate gypsum ceiling tiles with the ugly drop ceilings of the 60, 70s, and 80s, which usually consisted of lightweight square tiles set into a metal framework. More recently, interior ...

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 may be an unfamiliar name to many but we are surrounded by it every day. It is a mineral used to make types of plaster which coat our homes, schools and offices - and in Cumbria sits the ...

The United States is the world’s leading crude gypsum producer with an estimated production of 20 million tons per year. Gypsum is a common mineral and one widespread across Arizona. However, ...

The $104-million Little Narrows quarry project is on track to be loading its first gypsum on ships by year’s end. The quarry, ...

One of the basic components of most building construction which occurs in the United States and throughout the world involves the use of drywall. Most drywall today involves a layer of gypsum which is ...

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 ...

Warren Dick has worked with gypsum for more than two decades. You'd think he'd be an expert on drywall and plastering because both are made from gypsum. But the use of gypsum that Dick studies might ...