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 ...

Ceibo wants to unlock vast new copper deposits for the energy transition—while making the mining industry more sustainable. Ceibo seeks to eliminate a major potential speed bump for the clean-energy ...

Nuton technology uses naturally occurring microorganisms to extract copper from primary sulphide ores, which are generally difficult to process.

Endolith has reported a major advance in copper extraction as it pushes the frontiers of microbial science. In collaboration with BHP’s (ASX:BHP,NYSE:BHP,LSE:BHP) innovation arm, Think & Act ...

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump‘s administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration imposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in ...

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — President Donald Trump is taking a step toward granting the U.S. mining industry’s biggest wishes by singling out one metal as a focus of his domestic minerals policy: copper.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — President Donald Trump is taking a step toward granting the U.S. mining industry‘s biggest wishes by singling out one metal as a focus of his domestic minerals policy: copper. From ...

From a viewpoint at about 6,190 feet above sea level, a giant hole in the Oquirrh Mountains stretches two and a half miles wide and ¾ of a mile deep. Trucks with tires bigger than a sedan look like ...

Canadian mining giant Ivanhoe Mines has begun heating up its 500,000-tonnes-per-annum direct-to-blister copper smelter at the ...

The United States has a copper problem. Simply put, the U.S. uses a lot of it and there aren’t enough American mines to pull it out of the ground fast enough. But Ivanhoe Electric is moving toward ...