Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden have both made it a priority to secure a sufficient supply of critical minerals from the ground. But some in the current Trump administration have called for ...

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 ...

U.S. politics currently allow for vanishingly few areas of bipartisan consensus. But one thing government officials of all kinds tend to agree on is the importance of mining. In particular, they seek ...

MARSING, Idaho — The rugged landscape of Owyhee County, Idaho, will soon witness expanded mining operations as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has authorized significant enlargements to two ...

While the permits could cover territory far beyond the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, the president is also setting in motion potential seabed mining within U.S. coastal waters. Trump’s directive comes ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Montana Environmental Quality Council at its Dec. 2 meeting, approved a letter requesting ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

Public sector miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has signed an MoU with the Colorado School of Mines, USA, to establish a long-term research collaboration aimed at advancing mining ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. While “there’s a lot of room for ...

On March 20, the U.S. government announced a series of executive actions aimed at significantly increasing domestic mineral production. The initiative, known as "Immediate Measures to Increase ...

Ghana can convert mineral wealth into broad-based prosperity by shifting from raw extraction to value addition, local supplier upgrading, and skills pipeline an execution agenda MDPI can help design, ...