Among the environmental scars left behind by mining are heaps of waste known as tailings. They sit in exposed piles, are buried or are deposited in ponds and lakes. The danger comes from sulfide ...

Amazon will receive about 30,000 tonnes of copper over four years for its U.S. data centers. Rio Tinto’s Nuton technology cuts copper’s carbon footprint and water use by 45% while producing 99.99% ...

Amazon Web Services is the first customer for a re-opened mine in Arizona powered by microorganisms. Amazon Web Services is the first customer for a re-opened mine in Arizona powered by ...

For more than two decades, Ross Orr has been challenging one of mining's most prominent paradoxes: The Sustainability Paradox, which often asks the question: Can extracting the Earth's resources ever ...

At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...

Octava Minerals has received promising early-stage results from CSIRO tests of a low-cost bioleaching process of ore samples from its Byro rare earths and lithium project in WA’s Gascoyne region. The ...

EVEN the sleekest gadget depends on the mucky business of digging stuff out of the ground. Mobile phones and computers use copper for their wiring and rely on cobalt, germanium, lithium, nickel, ...