For more than a century, outsiders have come for what’s on this land. First, it was for gold. Today, it’s for lithium, a ...

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

While the ability to pull enough minerals from these sources to power the energy transition is still a long way off, ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

A copper mine in British Columbia produces a metal the world needs to phase out fossil fuels. It holds promise — and danger.

In August, roughly 100 fish turned up dead in a creek below the large Kensington gold mine north of Juneau. Seven months ...

Uzbekistan’s future in the critical minerals market will not be defined by its abundance of resources, but by the policies it enacts to ensure an economic boom does not come at the cost of ...

The process of global industrialization relies heavily on mining, which plays a pivotal role; however, it also gives rise to significant ecological and ...

Cleveland-Cliffs and U.S. Steel, which operate all six of Minnesota’s iron ore mines and pellet plants (Cliffs also runs the ...