A global metals selloff dragged down shares in companies ranging from Arizona copper miners to the world's largest gold producer to a silver firm with assets stretching from Alaska to Quebec. Although ...

Scientific studies show substantial reductions in deep-sea biodiversity following mining tests, with impacts potentially lasting decades. Governments are split between environmental caution and the ...

The global competition for critical minerals has intensified as Chinese mining companies have accelerated their international acquisitions, marking the busiest year for overseas deals in over a decade ...

ACCRA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Ghana has banned mining in forest reserves as part of sweeping environmental protections aimed at safeguarding water bodies and halting deforestation, the Ministry of ...

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A process to extract metals from their ore with hydrogen could make deep-sea mining for valuable materials more sustainable than mining on land, a new study claims. Swathes of the ocean floor are ...

ESTER, Alaska—At a mining site here, Rod Blakestad cracked open a shiny rock with his pick. He found quartz, a sign that the rock may contain gold. But Blakestad, a veteran gold hunter, tossed the ...

The moon is about to become the first extraterrestrial mining frontier, and most investors may be backing the wrong players. While venture capital pours into space startups promising to revolutionize ...

A new study indicates that deep-sea mining could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras, many of which are already at risk of extinction. The authors found that seabed sediment ...

When Joel Sercel thinks about the promise of extracting valuable resources from asteroids for use in space, he recalls other world-changing technologies that exploded when the time and circumstances ...

When Core Scientific signed a $3.5 billion deal to host artificial intelligence (AI) data centers earlier this year, it wasn’t chasing the next crypto token — it was chasing a steadier paycheck. Once ...