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Ghana’s Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, during a visit to the…
When two Oglala Lakota scouts heard drilling was expected to begin on Pe’ Sla, the…
Australia’s Yindjibarndi Indigenous group said on Wednesday it had lodged an appeal with the federal…
As the country places more priority on the mining industry in this financial year, Namayingo…
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As many as two thirds of mining and metals facilities worldwide are located in areas facing ‘significant’ physical water risk, according to a new report by the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM). According to the ICMM’s Global Mining and Metals Water Dataset and report,…
While Ukraine fights for its survival, questions are mounting over whether one of Europe’s most strategically important titanium facilities could become the latest target in a decades-long saga surrounding Russian musical composer Igor Raykhelson. As the war in Ukraine continues…
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…