Missouri mining companies and scientists are working to strengthen domestic supply chains of critical minerals like cobalt, gallium and germanium by tapping into industrial waste and re-mining ...

When fulfilled holiday wish lists include a new smartphone, upgraded laptop or the latest game console, their retired predecessors might be in cluttered junk drawers or landfills by January. Thanks to ...

A method that dramatically speeds up carbon dioxide sequestration and also aids in the extraction of critical minerals from mine tailings will make its way from a Michigan Technological University lab ...

MaverickX, which was born in San Antonio and is moving to Austin this year, is built on a bacterium that dissolves rock as a ...

Carbon-negative mining offers a promising path to meeting the mineral demands of the energy transition while shrinking the ...

Heap leaching is a cost‐effective, environmentally considerate method for extracting valuable metals from low-grade ores. This process involves piling crushed ore and irrigating it with a leaching ...

As renewable energy gathers steam around the world, the harms of mining its mineral components continue to grow. On the environmental front, for example, there’s the destruction of Indonesian ...

Researchers in the United States discovered a new way to extract rare earth minerals. They focused on seaweed, which hosts rare earth minerals in their leaf-like tissues. After multiple efforts, the ...

MGX Minerals Inc. (XMG: CNX) has received independent laboratory testing results from the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) on the company’s patent-pending “method for extraction of lithium from ...

Efforts in Pennsylvania to extract valuable rare earth minerals from tens of millions of tons of coal refuse are finding support in the new state budget. The Fiscal Code, House Bill 416, provides $1.9 ...