A new atlas charts the global distribution of unusual, critical-metal-bearing igneous rocks, finding that they often form ...

Most U.S. metal mines are built to dig for one or two things: copper, iron, or in some places maybe gold. But here’s the thing — when these mining companies pull up ore, the majority of its content ...

Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ancient supercontinent. More than 800 million years ago, tectonic rifting ...

The demand for domestically sourced critical minerals and rare-earth elements is increasing. TMC is focused on deep-sea mining of polymetallic nodules, which contain high concentrations of nickel, ...

An employee with EnergyX, an Austin-based lithium startup, works in the company's laboratory on Oct. 7. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news ...

Did you know that minerals are all around us? Minerals are the building blocks that make up rocks! They are the ores that we extract metals from to make electronics. They’re in the soils we need to ...

Novelist and travel writer Marsden (The Summer Isles) offers a dazzling account of humanity’s mystical and perilous relationship with rocks, minerals, and metals. He begins with his own fascination ...

The push is on to safeguard supplies of strategic metals and few are more precisely essential than rubidium, as Stockhead ... Read More The post Rubidium explained: Why advanced economies are chasing ...

WASHINGTON — Provisions in proposed federal legislation would limit enforcement of a mining ban in the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and return a pair of mineral leases ...