A company hoping to extract lithium from underground brines in south Arkansas announced Tuesday that it had completed technical testing that it said demonstrated that the direct lithium extraction ...

Governments face pressure to delay seabed mining as legal risks, fragile ecosystems and global treaty commitments collide.

Green mining practices are revolutionizing the mining industry, driven by an urgent call for sustainable resource extraction amid climate change. As this eco-friendly shift gains momentum, Vale S.A.

Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden have both made it a priority to secure a sufficient supply of critical minerals from the ground. But some in the current Trump administration have called for ...

Mining companies are increasingly adopting comprehensive water stewardship strategies to address risks to the watersheds ...

Mining might not be something you think about daily, but every physical product we use and depend on is dependent on natural resources that come from and are extracting from the Earth. AI is ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. While “there’s a lot of room for ...

A survey of mining records found dozens of requests for copper, manganese, and nickel targeting land reform settlements in ...