MIT and other researchers have developed a low-temperature, closed-loop extraction process that uses a liquid reagent to ...

Demand for lithium has surged in recent years as lithium-ion batteries increasingly power more of our world. And yet, even as places like the U.S., Europe, and Australia have abundant lithium ...

Startup Rock Zero is commercializing the research, which could cut costs and carbon emissions from lithium production.

A brutal fatal incident has claimed the life of a Pittsburgh-area man. Get the details here.

The rare isotope helium-3 is one of Earth’s most precious commodities—so precious, in fact, that it might prove profitable to mine from the moon ...

Longwall mining is a highly mechanised method of underground coal extraction in which a long wall of coal is mined in a single slice. Its efficiency and productivity have made it the prevailing ...

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The Senate on Thursday overturned a mining moratorium in Minnesota's Superior National Forest, a boon for a Chilean mining conglomerate Antofagasta. The chamber voted 50-49 to overturn a 20-year ...

For years, MP Materials was only a mining company. Now, though, it's vertically integrated. The company's Independence facility in Fort Worth, Texas, began producing its first NdFeB ...

The move was a victory for a Chilean company that wants to build a copper and nickel mine, which environmentalists say could devastate fragile lakes and forests. By Maxine Joselow Reporting from the ...

Operating since 1903, Rio Tinto’s Kennecott Mine near Salt Lake City remains one of the most productive mines in the world, where workers pulled 134,000 metric tons of copper from the earth last year, ...