Critical materials are substances that the U.S. government identifies as essential to energy technologies, economic and national security, and the manufacture…
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The U.S. agency responsible for overseeing deep-sea mining in federal waters is preparing to auction off seabed blocks within months…
Environmental questions plague deep-sea mining ambitions, but US bodies say the sector needs an adaptive management approach. Despite being an…
Geologists cracked a 2-billion-year-old code buried deep in the Earth, and it’s rewriting everything we thought we knew about finding…
Aiming to move more critical minerals processing and materials production into the United States, the U.S. Department of Energy has…
Rare earth metals are on the minds of all investors these days, and for good reason. Recent trade tensions have put China’s rare-earth…
Australian mining company Aldoro Resources Ltd has announced the discovery of rare minerals at the site of its Kameelburg project…
Two enormous sandlike dunes at an old chemical processing plant in South Africa are at the center of an exploratory…
An environmental advocacy group is suing the Department of the Interior (DOI) over its decision to greenlight a rare earth…
Swiftly reemerging as a strategic mineral in the United States, antimony has begun to cast new light on Alaska’s past…