Brussels wants to dig up more critical minerals in the bloc but says ‘regulatory bottlenecks’ are slowing things down. The European Union will loosen water, chemicals and permitting laws to encourage more new mines in the bloc as it attempts…

The global mining industry is undergoing a rapid digital transformation, driven by the dual pressures of the energy transition and increasingly complex extraction environments. A new market report projects the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) in mining market will nearly quadruple…

The US is in talks to provide more than $1 billion for two critical minerals and railway projects in central Africa as it seeks to secure supplies deemed crucial for national security. The US International Development Finance Corp. plans to…

The countdown has begun for the reopening of Iran’s largest underground iron ore mine—designed and engineered using domestic expertise. According to reports from several Iranian news agencies, new information indicates that one of the country’s major iron ore mines is…

In 2016, Elon Musk famously said: “Although [they’re] called lithium-ion, the actual percentage of lithium in a lithium-ion cell is approximately 2%. Technically, our cells should be called nickel-graphite, because the primary constituent in the cell as a whole is nickel. There’s…

Washington must move even faster to bolster critical minerals projects and offset Beijing’s grip on the world’s supply of the building blocks for electronics, weapons and a range of other goods, three US mining and refining executives said on Thursday.…

Congo has set new conditions for cobalt exporters, according to a government circular reviewed by Reuters, potentially complicating a recently introduced quota system as the country seeks to keep a tight grip on the key battery mineral. The new conditions require miners, among…

An upgraded transparency portal from Global Fishing Watch and UC Santa Barbara brings unprecedented visibility to deep-sea mining, tracking vessel activity, exploration zones and emerging industrial impacts across the world’s oceans. Global Fishing Watch and the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory…