Missouri mining companies and scientists are working to strengthen domestic supply chains of critical minerals like cobalt, gallium and germanium by tapping into industrial waste and re-mining ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the founder of WildAid and Wildlife Alliance How can we procure critical minerals and meet the needs of the global economy ...

If you had a jar of marbles of many different colors but wanted only the green ones, how could you efficiently pick them out? What if it wasn’t marbles but a jar of glitter, and there was sand, glue, ...

New research shows that magnesium and other metals in mine waste can be solubilized and recovered thanks to acid-producing bacteria. Researcher Nathan van Wyk believes that the method has great ...

When fulfilled holiday wish lists include a new smartphone, upgraded laptop or the latest game console, their retired predecessors might be in cluttered junk drawers or landfills by January. Thanks to ...

As renewable energy gathers steam around the world, the harms of mining its mineral components continue to grow. On the environmental front, for example, there’s the destruction of Indonesian ...

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 ...