Researchers find new way to locate untapped rare earths deposits worldwide

The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) has picked someone outside the industry to oversee an initiative aimed at setting new dam safety standards for miners.

The foams are supposed to give physicists better X-ray sources to employ in experiments at the National Ignition Facility.

New study plotting US equities against raw material prices going back to 1970 points to 112% upside for commodities just to return to trend.

Australian experts are paying attention to low-impact exploration tools.

The announcement follows a warning by the US Federal Trade Commission regarding the misuse of the words eco-friendly’ and ‘sustainable.’

The goal is to study the physicochemical patterns and mechanisms of nitric acid dissection of hard-to-process ores.

The industry is still undecided in how to present diamonds to consumers following the wider-scale emergence of man-made stones in recent years.

American researchers proved that a purification method that dates back to the 10th Century still works.

Researchers want space-miners to focus on the Moon, Mars and iron-rich bodies tumbling through the asteroid belt and leave things such as Jupiter and Saturn alone.