November 1, 2021 Sulfur, selenium self-healing insulator proves highly effective on steel Anticorrosion coating developed at Rice University and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is a good candidate for infrastructure projects and electronics.
October 29, 2021 The View from England: China analysts remain in the dark Miners are almost blind to demand trends in the largest consumer of metals and minerals.
October 28, 2021 COP26 will be a colossal mining cop-out New report lays out how the green energy transition “starts and ends with metals” but the required exponential growth in mining is a glaring hole in US and global decarbonisation…
October 28, 2021 UN deep-sea mining rules unlikely to be completed by 2023, Latam countries say The UN's International Seabed Authority (ISA) is working on global rules covering sea bed mining, which is not allowed until the regulations are finalised.
October 28, 2021 Australia plans to boost mineral discovery with new drill core research lab CSIRO together with the Science and Industry Endowment Fund, the University of Western Australia and Curtin University just opened a Geoscience Drill Core Research Laboratory.
October 27, 2021 Cobalt-60 — a life-saving medical isotope harvested at Onatrio Nuclear Generating Station Ontario's CANDU reactors produce 50% of the world's supply of Cobalt-60.
October 26, 2021 Colombian Mining Association establishes sustainable mining standard Producers of coal, gold, nickel, emeralds, copper and industrial minerals in the country will adopt a set of indicators to measure and publicly report on the quality of its management…
October 26, 2021 Citric acid can be used to extract rare earth metals from coal ash The method, if widely adopted, could turn coal ash from an environmental pariah into a commercially viable product, researcher says.
October 25, 2021 Caterpillar gears up for green energy transition, automation age MINING.COM sits down for a conversation with Denise Johnson, Caterpillar’s mining chief, to talk about the future of mining and the trends shaping the industry.
October 24, 2021 What automation, AI, AR and robotics mean for the future of work in mining A new report by Wikistrat and idoba analyzes the impacts that technological developments and ESG issues are likely to have on workers in the mining industry.
Hedge funds cut bullish gold wagers to lowest in 15 weeks Hedge funds and other large speculators reduced net-long positions by 23%. February 06, 2026 | 03:33 pm
