The Trump administration is trying to develop programs to domestically produce “critical” minerals that might be unavailable ...

A clean energy future hinges on minerals such as copper, cobalt, lithium, and rare earth elements. But the race to secure ...

Missouri mining companies and scientists are working to strengthen domestic supply chains of critical minerals like cobalt, gallium and germanium by tapping into industrial waste and re-mining ...

As renewable energy gathers steam around the world, the harms of mining its mineral components continue to grow. On the environmental front, for example, there’s the destruction of Indonesian ...

Minerals and metals used in technologies enabling much of the global energy transition and their applications are relatively new and require thought and reporting that probes questions related to ...

Last year, the Trump administration appeared to give up on the future of renewable energy entirely. It launched an all-out ...

A dragline excavator mines rare earth materials in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine on Feb. 25, 2025. Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images The U.S. and Ukraine have a new “economic partnership” ...

The Executive Order is intended to aid in establishing the U.S. as a global leader in seabed mineral exploration and extraction of seabed polymetallic nodules and other strategic materials, with clear ...

In this undated photo, mineral harvesting ponds used by Compass Minerals cover the northeast corner of the Great Salt Lake. Multiple companies pump the mineral-rich water of the lake into shallow ...

During the 39th African Union (AU) Summit earlier this month, Africa’s critical minerals took centre stage. Addressing the summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...

In a recent article titled Blood minerals in DR Congo: Myth or reality? the author questions whether mineral exploitation meaningfully fuels violence in eastern Congo. This framing is misleading. It ...

The Idaho Department of Lands is currently taking registration forms for an upcoming auction of mineral rights on 120 acres of State-owned land near Emmett. The parcel of land which the State is ...