Non-ferrous Metal Ore Mining

Miners are turning to machine learning, cutting-edge chemistry and other innovative means to increase the supply of critical materials such as copper and graphite amid the rising demand for green technologies. In 2011, Nico Cuevas, a…

Lily Dickson was hurrying across the University of Leeds campus when a student campaigner handed her a flier that called for a ban on campus recruiting by mining and oil-and-gas companies.The 24-year old doctoral student in geology was…

Metal markets seem to think copper is the new lithium. A lack of new mining activity has added to worries that there won’t be enough of the red metal for the energy transition, a popular topic at this week’s World Copper Conference in…

Lithium is a key component of rechargeable batteries, and developing domestic supply is seen as an important step in a broad push for the U.S. to transition to alternative energy sources. In February, the Biden administration unveiled plans…

AMC said in a statement it would invest $27.9 million in cash in Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. HYMC 9.35% Chief Executive Adam Aron said on Twitter, “AMC is…

Rio Tinto RIO -2.85% PLC offered to pay roughly $2.7 billion to buy out minority shareholders in Canada’s Turquoise Hill TRQ -2.52%…

ADELAIDE, Australia—KoBold Metals, a startup backed by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures that aims to use artificial intelligence to find metals needed for the electric-vehicle boom, raised $192.5…

RICHARDS BAY, South Africa—Last May, three men strode into a suburban street and sprayed gunfire into a car, killing mining executive Nico Swart on his way to work.Mr. Swart, 47 years old, had been a general…