Marine animals vacated the area where Japan extracted cobalt crusts from the top of deep-sea mountains to mine cobalt.

Rio Tinto’s $140 million estimate and schedule for the starter plant at Rincon lithium project are under review due to cost escalation.

A recently-discovered mechanism enables iron to help convert waste such as wood chips into graphene.

There are millions of end-of-life tires buried or piled high at mines around the world. A unique Canada-Japan joint venture is tackling this problem head-on in the heart of global copper mining.

The new form of silicon is called Q-silicon and, among other properties, it is ferromagnetic at room temperature.