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Two minerals never seen on earth extracted from meteorite sample

Ever heard about elaliite and elkinstantonite?

Staff Writer | December 29, 2022 | 7:28 am

Women in Mining Spotlight: Cat Culkin

Cat Culkin, chief technology officer at Pronto.ai on a virtual…

Amanda Stutt | December 28, 2022 | 9:14 am

Extraterrestrial manganese turns out to be oxygen-free

Researchers discovered that under Mars-like conditions, manganese oxides can be…

Staff Writer | December 27, 2022 | 7:49 am

Turns out that gold objects were also valued during the Bronze Age

Archaeologists identified a 4000-year-old gold-working toolkit amongst the grave goods…

Staff Writer | December 26, 2022 | 6:36 am

How virtual reality makes geology more accessible

Students and other people interested in geology can have a…

Staff Writer | December 22, 2022 | 7:38 am

Bacteria may have played big role in the formation of massive silver, gold deposits

Scientists at Penn State University and the University of Saskatchewan found silver in coprolites collected from the Ravens Throat River Lagerstätte in Canada’s Northwest Territories.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | December 27, 2021 | 10:30 am

Researchers link cobalt mining in the DRC to violence, substance abuse, food-water insecurity

An interdisciplinary group of researchers is calling for more data on how emerging technologies affect human health and livelihoods.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | December 26, 2021 | 10:17 am

The View from England: On the rocks

Whisky’s ability, like those of a mining engineer, is to make the earth move.

Chris Hinde | December 24, 2021 | 8:00 am

New industrial WiFi system to bring 6G technologies to remote, underground mines

University of Sydney researchers are developing an industrial long-range WiFi system that transmits signals to hard-to-reach places while maintaining high data rates.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 23, 2021 | 6:06 am

ALROSA names diamond after folklore heroine to honor indigenous culture

Kyndykan was a young girl who was miraculously found alive 200 years ago by Yakut hunters near the Verkhoyansk Mountains in an ancestral settlement completely wiped out by smallpox.

MINING.com Editor | December 22, 2021 | 12:37 pm

Enabling developing countries to become self-sustaining will power the global circular carbon economy of the future

The Future Minerals Summit will gather mining investors and government stakeholders to discuss opportunities and the future of the industry.

Khalid Al-Mudaifer, Vice-Minister of Mining Affairs for the Saudi Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources | December 21, 2021 | 12:58 pm

Pure copper ingots unlock secrets of Iron Age trade routes

Elemental and lead isotope analyses of ancient copper ingots unlocked secrets of Early Iron Age trade routes and how Indigenous Mediterranean communities functioned 2,600 years ago.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 20, 2021 | 6:06 am

First kilo of blockchain tracked gold shipped from Burkina Faso on Minexx platform

Burkina Faso produces 34 tonnes of artisanal gold per year, but only 300kg was formally exported in 2019 due to a lack of traceability and lower export taxes in neighbouring countries.

MINING.com Editor | December 17, 2021 | 3:02 pm

Amazon tribe suffers mercury contamination as illegal mining spreads

Illegal gold mining in the north Amazonian territory of Brazil's indigenous Munduruku people has led to more than half of several hundred people tested showing unsafe mercury levels.

Thomson Reuters Foundation | December 17, 2021 | 7:54 am

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