Mark Cutifani is talking to private equity firms about new ways to invest in the mining sector as the energy transition gathers pace.

To be run by the British Geological Survey, the centre will use the data to help to find ways to source minerals needed for green technologies.

Researchers believe the EU will have to build its own urban mining and refining operations to decrease its raw materials dependency.

Researchers are using electrochemical exfoliation to turn petroleum coke into graphene.

Investment will fund research and mapping of areas with potential for critical minerals to strengthen key domestic supply chains.

The Wyoming Innovation Center is a place for companies and researchers to work on developing asphalt, graphene, graphite, agricultural char, and carbon fibre, and extract rare earths from coal and coal byproducts.

Ohio University researchers have presented evidence of a new carbon solid they named "amorphous graphite."