An Endolith technician swirls a flask containing a starter culture of the company’s proprietary microbes. The amber color ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

Commercial mining on the miles-deep Pacific Ocean floor came one step closer to reality with an announcement late Tuesday by ...

Now, though, one mining firm says it plans to move forward — with or without that rulebook in place. The Metals Company, a Canadian startup, says it will seek approval this year to launch the ...

“The Biden administration was officially on the fence, but really not wanting to do anything with deep-sea mining,” said Oliver Gunasekara, CEO of Impossible Metals, which hopes to harvest ...

“We need to design our systems such that we have the capacity to recycle those metals.” This process, sometimes called “urban mining,” includes developing innovative recycling ...

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries worry industrial mining would harm oceans. By Eric Lipton The long ...

But others question whether mining these metals in space and bringing them back to Earth is really feasible, especially in the near term – and whether it could have its own unique, but just as ...