Mining mergers are back in style. Rio Tinto, the industry’s fourth-most valuable company, has confirmed it is in talks to ...

Endolith has reported a major advance in copper extraction as it pushes the frontiers of microbial science. In collaboration with BHP’s (ASX:BHP,NYSE:BHP,LSE:BHP) innovation arm, Think & Act ...

Amazon’s data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that’s leaching metal from ores using ...

From a viewpoint at about 6,190 feet above sea level, a giant hole in the Oquirrh Mountains stretches two and a half miles wide and ¾ of a mile deep. Trucks with tires bigger than a sedan look like ...

Carbon-negative mining offers a promising path to meeting the mineral demands of the energy transition while shrinking the ...

Rio Tintos preliminary talks to acquire Glencore could mark a defining moment for the global mining sector, potentially ...

The head of a Chilean mining company that wants to open a copper-nickel mine on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness says a new import tax on copper could help the project.

Brazil holds some of the world’s largest reserves of critical minerals, including niobium, rare earths, graphite, manganese, bauxite, zinc, and lithium. However, the next frontier is copper, which now ...

Long before he was elected, President Donald Trump promised to reinvigorate mining in northeast Minnesota. Since January, his administration has taken many actions to clear the way for new hardrock ...