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The Pebble Mine project has been in administrative limbo since Barack Obama held office. Under…
Over the next few months, Guinea’s environment ministry will review an environmental and social impact…
A proposed West High Yield Resources (TSXV: WHY) magnesium mine in British Columbia remains stuck…
United States President Donald Trump overturned a 2023 decision by the Biden administration that had…
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Companies working at the frontier of aerospace, energy, and computing are constantly looking for new materials to improve performance. But in order to understand how those materials will actually behave once they’re inside rockets or on computer chips, companies first…
A smelter owned by mining and energy group PT Alamtri Resources Indonesia made its first aluminium exports in June, shipping to the U.S. and South Korea, according to Export Genius, a trade data platform. PT Kalimantan Aluminium Industry, which is…
Asteroids are often described as floating treasure chests, packed with iron, nickel, and platinum group metals, but the reality is more complicated. These small bodies preserve clues from the early history of the solar system, and some are genuinely rich…
A Quebec chemical firm has developed a cyanide-free, and generally non-toxic method to extract gold from mineral ores—an option that could potentially relieve companies from a significant portion of current environmental compliance. The firm, Dundee Sustainable Technologies, also offers a…
Gold’s slide back below $4,000 an ounce wipes out most of mining’s 2026 gains, but the old guard of diversified giants – led by a resurgent BHP – is staging a comeback. At the end of the second quarter the…
The natural world has evolved in ingenious and bizarre ways to survive some of the most hostile environments on the planet. Take for instance deep-sea molluscs, which survive in temperatures of up to 450ºC, living on hydrothermal vents some 5000…
Mexico’s government is negotiating a settlement with Vulcan Materials to permanently end limestone extraction at the Calica site in Quintana Roo, offering the company an alternative location and port-use flexibility in exchange for environmental remediation. The outcome carries weight beyond…
Miners backed by the US administration sell to Japan and South Korea despite push to develop domestic supply chain US rare earths produced by Washington-backed companies are flowing to Japan and South Korea, as American demand has yet to materialise…