Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s teeming ...

Clean energy technologies are colliding with a hard geological limit: the world needs far more copper, lithium, manganese and rare earth elements than conventional mines are currently delivering. At ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - Longview City Council unanimously voted to approve the beginning steps of the biomining process facility, located along East Loop 281 where precious metals and other elements ...

Sudbury mine tailings contain $8 billion-$10 billion worth of nickel that can be extracted in an economical and ...

Imagine a future where Earth is a zone reserved for living, and heavy industries and mining has moved off-world. Space mining can in fact, not only contribute to this, but it can enable human ...