At the AME Roundup conference in Vancouver last week, attended by 6,200 delegates, Geoscience BC launched the Critical Minerals and Metals in BC Mine Tailings and Waste Rock program — a province-wide study to determine where […]
Morocco has emerged as the major winner from the competition engaged between the United States and China for control of the supply chain of critical minerals, used in clean energy transition and electric vehicle (EV) […]
In a vote earlier this month that attracted cross-party support, Norway’s parliament voted 80-20 to approve a government proposal to open a vast ocean area for commercial-scale deep-sea mining. It makes the northern European country […]
The Guatemalan Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) will revise all decisions made in the recent past related to mining exploration, exploitation and export licenses. According to local media, the new head of the […]
Hochschild Mining plc (LSE: HOC) ended 2023 at the top end of its revised production guidance, with costs also anticipated to be in line with expectations, the UK-based precious metals producer announced Wednesday. Total attributable production […]
We need low-cost energy in the United States, and I love talking with people about the energy market. Shane Stolp, CEO at Wescom, and I had a great talk about all forms of energy. We […]
Casper-based Disa Technologies has a new patented mineral separation process that could have broad application in the mining and extraction sector, but is particularly exciting for rare earths and uranium remediation. It’s another cog in […]
The nonprofit Global Witness investigated lithium mining projects in Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Namibia, which appear to reproduce the same model of extractivism that has impoverished African countries for centuries. In March, […]
China will halt the export of a range of rare-earth technologies, potentially making it harder for the US and other western nations to bolster supplies of strategic raw materials. Beijing put technology for making rare-earth metals and […]
In 2022, 2.8 billion tonnes of metals were mined throughout the world – while major industries that directly consume processed mineral materials contribute 14% of the US economy. As Visual Capitalist‘s Bruno Venditti details below, […]
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