WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday took steps to increase recovery of critical minerals, used in everything from electric vehicles to high-tech weapons, from mine waste, ...
Across coal country, the same toxic sludge and rust-colored water that once symbolized the end of an industry is starting to look like the beginning of something else. Buried in coal ash ponds, mine ...
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the federal, science-based agency that assesses the mineral resources of the United States and tracks production, use and trade data of 100 minerals, is pursuing a ...
MELBOURNE, May 31 (Reuters) - Australia has released a map of sites containing mine waste that could be reprocessed to source minerals critical to the global energy transition, the government said on ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LEADVILLE — Millions of tons of waste from decades-old mining operations sit in the hills east of town. The brown and orange piles of abandoned ore rise 30 ...
Across Africa’s expanding mining landscape, a critical question is gaining urgency: how can mineral development proceed without compromising water resources and environmental stability? As governments ...