Scientists explore possibility of mining iron, nickel, cobalt-rich near-earth asteroids

Metal-rich asteroids are similar to some stony-iron meteorites found on Earth.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 11, 2021 | 6:06 am

Musk to move Tesla headquarters to Texas from California

Elon Musk announced the move at the Austin plant Thursday during the electric-vehicle maker’s shareholder meeting.

Bloomberg News | October 8, 2021 | 8:03 am

Coal industry is getting ample funding to pile into new plants

Less than 5% of the firms on the Global Coal Exit List have announced a coal exit date, according to a report.

Bloomberg News | October 7, 2021 | 9:22 am

Iron ore price rout hacks $160 billion off Top 50 mining stocks

Iron ore’s whitenuckle descent took a chunk out of the MINING.COM TOP 50 ranking of the world’s most valuable miners amid a continuing rally in uranium, coal and lithium prices.

MINING.com Editor | October 6, 2021 | 1:03 pm

Group Ten Metals close to initial resource for Stillwater West project in Montana

Group Ten is bringing PGM bulk mining to North America for the first time, CEO says.

Henry Lazenby | October 6, 2021 | 9:59 am

HighGold shares surge on ‘game-changing’ Alaska project drill results

The first hole at DC returned bonanza grades of 577.9 g/t Au and 2,023 g/t Ag.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | October 6, 2021 | 9:50 am

GM, General Electric to develop supply chain of rare earth materials for EVs

Partnership will evaluate ways to improve supplies of heavy and light rare earth materials and magnets, copper and electrical steel.

Reuters | October 6, 2021 | 7:56 am

Gold Resource to buy Aquila in $30 million deal

The new miner will be an intermediate gold producer once Aquila’s Back Forty zinc and copper project in Michigan begins production.

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 6, 2021 | 6:22 am

Senators blast new US mining royalty plan as anti-green, pro-China

"You can’t make this stuff up. House Democrats are planning to tax dirt,” said one Senator.

MINING.com Editor | October 5, 2021 | 12:34 pm

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