The 2025/2026 Future of Mining Challenge, announced earlier this year, focused on sustainable water management. Cetos Water ...

A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows how electrochemistry can be used to extract precious metals from discarded electronics in an efficient and environmentally friendly ...

As demand grows for critical minerals with lower environmental impact, Thunderstone CEO Eric Wasson-Burns discusses ...

Have you ever wondered why companies are so eager for your old electronics? It's not because they want your previous iPhone so much as the minerals inside.

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 ...

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Every year, the world consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand, gravel and crushed stone. The astonishing scale of this demand is hard to comprehend – 12.5 million Olympic sized swimming pools per ...

Metals and mining companies have long been part of the bedrock of the modern economy. Metals are ubiquitous, found in ...