Missouri mining companies and scientists are working to strengthen domestic supply chains of critical minerals like cobalt, gallium and germanium by tapping into industrial waste and re-mining ...

Heap leaching is a cost‐effective, environmentally considerate method for extracting valuable metals from low-grade ores. This process involves piling crushed ore and irrigating it with a leaching ...

MGX Minerals Inc. (XMG: CNX) has received independent laboratory testing results from the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) on the company’s patent-pending “method for extraction of lithium from ...

A method that dramatically speeds up carbon dioxide sequestration and also aids in the extraction of critical minerals from mine tailings will make its way from a Michigan Technological University lab ...

Conventional lithium extraction requires several complex steps, as well as the use of acid and high temperatures, over the course of several hours. Researchers at Penn State have developed a new ...

Mining is the process of extracting valuable minerals, metals and other resources from the earth. This may entail extracting minerals from underground deposits or from the earth’s surface. The ...

As renewable energy gathers steam around the world, the harms of mining its mineral components continue to grow. On the environmental front, for example, there’s the destruction of Indonesian ...

Compass Mineral International, a leading supplier of essential minerals like salt and sulfate of potash (used in plant fertilizer), has been pivoting to focus on the “new gold” rush, lithium. The ...

Researchers in the United States discovered a new way to extract rare earth minerals. They focused on seaweed, which hosts rare earth minerals in their leaf-like tissues. After multiple efforts, the ...

Efforts in Pennsylvania to extract valuable rare earth minerals from tens of millions of tons of coal refuse are finding support in the new state budget. The Fiscal Code, House Bill 416, provides $1.9 ...