Demand for lithium is skyrocketing as factories across the world churn out electric vehicles and the massive batteries that ...

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 ...

Researchers stand to the right of a series of tubes and large water tanks. Through a public-private partnership with Ebb Carbon, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have deployed a ...

MGX Minerals Inc. (XMG: CNX) has received independent laboratory testing results from the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) on the company’s patent-pending “method for extraction of lithium from ...

MaverickX, which was born in San Antonio and is moving to Austin this year, is built on a bacterium that dissolves rock as a ...

Heap leaching is a cost‐effective, environmentally considerate method for extracting valuable metals from low-grade ores. This process involves piling crushed ore and irrigating it with a leaching ...

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 ...

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