When it comes time to fret about minerals critical to the energy transition, lithium, cobalt and nickel may get all the attention, but another metal is keeping plenty of analysts up at night. Though ...
When easy options run out, industries get inventive. That’s where copper miners find themselves. Faced with vigorous demand, ...
Bioleaching unlocks revenue from low-grade ores, but the cost-effective copper extraction process is struggling to get off ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a ...
Rio Tinto has achieved a milestone with the first copper produced from Gunnison Copper’s Johnson Camp mine in Arizona, US, using Nuton copper processing technology. The Nuton technology, the result of ...
Freeport-McMoRan's Q3 2023 results demonstrate strong performance and technological leadership in copper extraction. The bull thesis for copper stocks, based on structural shortages, may be challenged ...
Amid rising demand, miners are turning to biotech firms to help them squeeze more metal out of aging mines. In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is ...
BASF has formed a partnership with the US firm Moleaer to develop a technology that would enable mining companies to increase their recovery of copper from ore. BASF plans to combine its LixTRA metal ...
Canada-based startup pH7 Technologies has developed a new chemical process solution that can extract precious and critical metals, mainly platinum-group metals (PGM) from both primary and secondary ...