Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It is the key ingredient of bronze, the alloy that helped create some of the world’s ...

The devastation raises the question: Is the world better off just sticking with the status quo? With these factors, is renewable energy and clean technology any better than fossil fuels? In 2023, a ...

SAN JOAQUIN, Mexico (AP) — A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of Earth’s most toxic elements. Buried in red stripes ...

Starting just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, a vast underground deposit of lithium stretches south for 25 miles. A key ...

Steel and aluminum are two of the world’s most in-demand materials, feeding numerous sectors — including construction and transportation — with demand forecast to grow in the coming decades. Aluminum ...

The pristine white snowpack blanketing the Rocky Mountains may look pure, but a new study reveals it carries an invisible ...

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In collaboration with Eldorado Gold and with support from Norda Stelo, Emperor is actively advancing updates to the Lac Pelletier closure plan. Work completed last month on the property in support of ...

THE latest police action against anti-mining protestors in Barangay Bitnong, Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya, last Jan. 23, ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change, as ...