The contest for critical minerals is the defining industrial and security challenge of the 21st century. As a former U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

Minerals and metals used in technologies enabling much of the global energy transition and their applications are relatively new and require thought and reporting that probes questions related to ...

Last year, the Trump administration appeared to give up on the future of renewable energy entirely. It launched an all-out ...

The Trump administration is trying to develop programs to domestically produce “critical” minerals that might be unavailable ...

Deep in the Amazon, far from Caracas and invisible to Washington, a criminal industry in Venezuela is expanding under armed protection. While policymakers debate Venezuela’s oil, a violent parallel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A dragline excavator mines rare earth materials in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine on Feb. 25, 2025. Kostiantyn ...

Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

A clean energy future hinges on minerals such as copper, cobalt, lithium, and rare earth elements. But the race to secure them puts pressure on the places where they are mined. With some supply and ...

In a recent article titled Blood minerals in DR Congo: Myth or reality? the author questions whether mineral exploitation meaningfully fuels violence in eastern Congo. This framing is misleading. It ...

The Idaho Department of Lands is currently taking registration forms for an upcoming auction of mineral rights on 120 acres of State-owned land near Emmett. The parcel of land which the State is ...