A small molecule that naturally serves as a binding site for metals in enzymes also proves useful for separating certain rare earth metals from each other. In a proof of concept, the process extracts ...

But amid the push to dig more, one question gets far too little attention: Who will actually process what comes out of the ground? Between mining and the finished product lies a complex chain of ...

Critical minerals and materials (CMM), such as rare earth elements (REEs), lithium, and platinum group metals (PGM), are essential for renewable energy ...

London - The U.K.'s Royal Mint, the country's official coinmaker, has opened a factory that will extract gold from e-waste to reduce its reliance on traditional mining and encourage more sustainable ...

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 ...

A Colorado School of Mines study finds that leftover ore in U.S. mines contains vast quantities of critical minerals needed for clean energy technologies. Extracting even small percentages of these ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A company that wants to extract gold from piles of decades-old mining waste outside Leadville no longer plans to use cyanide in its processes after hearing ...

Rush for lithium, cobalt and nickel is ravaging livelihoods, water and health of world’s most vulnerable, UN study says ...

For decades, mining advantage was determined by geology. That is no longer enough. Ore grade, reserve size and proximity to ...