The country’s biggest lithium mine has residents of McDermitt skeptical. The town straddles the Nevada-Oregon border and has a history of pollution.

As artificial intelligence has seeped more into daily life, it’s been met with a mix of acceptance and repulsion. The ...

After years of industrial operations left the Nedlog and Williams Strategic Metals property, commonly known as the old cement ...

For those of a certain age, being summonsed to the headmaster’s office for ‘six of the best’ was a none-too-pleasant ...

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The surge in gold prices is driving a rapid expansion in informal and unregulated gold mining that is often illegal and ecologically destructive, according to the World Gold Council.

A Territory tourist attraction which allegedly encouraged adventurers to poke around known sacred sites is in the Federal ...

Buried in the reddish soil of southern China lies latent power: one of the largest clusters of crucial rare earths is mined ...

As Europe seeks to curb its dependence on China for rare earths, plans to mine the continent's biggest deposit have hit a ...

Polymatech will show the UV LED platform at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, USA, providing global technology leaders, OEMs, and ...

Four years after the Fundão dam collapse—the world's largest mining disaster, which occurred in 2015 in the city of Mariana ...

To protect public health and the environment, Nigeria has imposed a ban on mineral processing plants operating in residential ...