August 6, 2021

Industrial mining tourism – a new opportunity for old mines

Tourism is one potential avenue that can turn a declining mining town's fortunes around.

August 5, 2021

Rio Tinto’s Holden mine remediation leads to land conservation in Washington State

The Holden mine has been closed since the 1950’s. Rio Tinto assumed financial responsibility for remediation when it acquired Alcan.

August 5, 2021

Purified tin selenide may be ideal to convert waste heat into energy — study

US and Korean researchers have developed the most efficient thermoelectric system on record.

August 4, 2021

Anglo American, Salzgitter to jointly advance green steel

The partners intend to conduct research into feed materials to use in direct reduction (DR) steelmaking, based on natural gas and hydrogen.

August 4, 2021

Bacteria help extract rare earths from mine slag heaps

French researchers will start extracting rare earths, cobalt, copper, and nickel from slag heaps in Finland and New Caledonia.

August 3, 2021

Manganese could help transform sunlight into energy more sustainably than iridium, ruthenium

Researchers have produced luminescent manganese complexes for more sustainable materials and catalysts for converting sunlight into other forms of energy.

July 31, 2021

Sediment plumes from deep-sea mining become turbulent cloud

New research shows that midwater sediment plumes discharged by mining machinery become a highly turbulent cloud of suspended particles.

July 30, 2021

State of the sector: Worker health, safety and equality in ASM — report

While women make up a large percentage of the ASM workforce —they are largely invisible within the data.

July 28, 2021

New technology closer to reaching superhot geothermal energy sources

Progress is being made toward the holy grail of geothermal energy, according to experts gathered at the PIVOT21 Conference.

July 27, 2021

UNESCO names Romanian ancient gold mine settlement a world heritage site

Gabriel Resources, which had planned to build Europe's largest open cast gold mine in Rosia Montana, is currently seeking $4.4 billion in damages from Romania for losses related to its…