Religious rights advocates and First Amendment experts say the ability of Native peoples to exercise religious rights is at ...

StarRupture is an open-world game with a giant map, but if you're looking to extract a specific type of ore in bulk, here's what you can do.

According to BHP Insights, 30% of copper comes from scrap that is recycled. Apart from genuine liquidation, dissolving ...

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Reduced ecological footprint: Ores mined in the deep sea (left) can be reduced with a hydrogen plasma in an electric arc furnace, after drying. This produces manganese oxides and a manganese- and ...

Rare earth elements are vital to new technologies and industry but hard to obtain. A new project led by UC Davis and funded by a grant from ARPA-E aims to develop acid-tolerant bacteria that can ...

Around 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processingore, an activity known as smelting. This monumental shift gave them a powerful new technology ...

Still Bright hopes its chemical process could help replace polluting copper smelters. Demand for copper is surging, as is pollution from its dirty production processes. The founders of one startup, ...

Coverage of tribal natural resources is supported in part by Catena Foundation For two decades, Resolution Copper has touted its massive mining project 60 miles east of Phoenix as an economic boom for ...

Copper mining company Taseko Mines Ltd. is in the early stages of B.C.’s environmental assessment process, with the hopes of establishing an open-pit copper mine near Vavenby. /Image courtesy Taseko ...

The story of human progress is often told through the materials we have shaped and mastered. Stone gave way to bronze, bronze to iron, and iron to steel. Each shift brought not just stronger tools but ...