hard rock

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Tanbreez is among the largest rare earth hard rock deposits in the world, at 45 million tons.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

"You are my god," Sanae Takaichi, a hard rock enthusiast, told the band's drummer Ian Paice, beaming as she handed him a pair of signed Japanese-made drumsticks.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

Most of the fossil remains encased in hard rock, and manually removing it could take years.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

Pop culture seemed ready to welcome back a breed of hitmaker thought lost to time — the sleeve-tatted, throat-shredding hard rock star.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

This wasn’t hard rock against hard rock; harmonic tremors were earthquakes of solid rock against magma, “like squishy rock sliding on solid rock,” explained Malone.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone