Heavy industry meets battery recycling as Redwood Materials strikes a deal with Caterpillar to recycle the lithium-ion batteries powering CAT’s electric mining equipment. Caterpillar’s R1700 XE is a zero-emission underground loader that’s powered by electricity rather than diesel fuel. Its…

The small country faces stiff competition from its neighbor’s, but also benefits from growing regional integration. Bahrain may be the smallest country in the Middle East, yet the glittering towers that populate the Manama skyline — several of which are…

Interlink Metals and Chemicals AG, a Swiss-headquartered global metals trading and processing company, has broken ground on a first-of-its-kind titanium production facility in Bahrain, signalling a major step toward reshaping global titanium supply chains amid shifting geopolitical dynamics. Through its…

A new study from the Colorado School of Mines has found that the United States could meet much of its demand for critical minerals by recovering materials currently discarded in mining waste. Published this week in Science, the analysis shows…

Industries globally are grappling with the aftereffects of COVID and geopolitical tensions on their supply chain. These obstacles have forced suppliers and manufacturers to explore new markets and forge connections with previously overlooked regions. Metals of all kinds are highly…

Positioning its Pentagon-backed Louisiana plant for future supply, Ucore Rare Metals Inc. has signed a non-binding agreement with Critical Metals Corp. for heavy rare earth concentrate from the Tanbreez project in Southern Greenland, the first step toward a 10-year offtake…

Recovering just 1 percent of rare earth elements from these by-products could replace imports Many useful metals unearthed from U.S. mines are discarded. When mining operations dig for valuable metals, they often exhume ore containing other metals too. These by-product…

Deep-sea rocks packed with valuable metals may also be making oxygen in the deep, dark ocean—raising new questions about the cost of mining them. Scattered across the deep ocean floor are trillions of potato-sized black rocks packed with valuable metals…