In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a time when carmakers want the metal for electric-vehicle batteries, nickel ...

Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park near Ely is one of those magnificent secrets that makes you wonder how something so ...

Invisible clouds of sediment created by underwater mining spread for miles, putting ocean floor ecosystems at risk.

A joint investigation by The Associated Press and The Gecko Project has found that cyanide, arsenic and copper repeatedly ...

Chart: The Economist Brazil holds nearly a quarter of the world’s known deposits of rare earths, second only to China (see chart). Besides prime geology, the country boasts a sturdy extractive ...

Agriculture is a major economic activity in the region, and Anglo American is advancing several initiatives to support the ...

If you have reached the journey for Adamantite in Hytale, you are approaching the end of the available ores to mine.

Endfield carves its place with high-tech space drills. Out Jan. 22 for Android, iOS, PlayStation 5, and Windows PC, the game ...

On Dec. 2, 2025, Guinea celebrated a milestone when a ship loaded with iron ore departed from the newly constructed port of Morebaya on the Atlantic coast. The shipment of 200,000 tonnes of ore, ...

After decades of planning, the first shipment of iron ore from Guinea’s Simandou mines is on its way to China. The shipment marks the beginning of an era in which Guinea is expected to become one of ...

The Yandicoogina iron ore mine in the Pilbara. Credit: Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto and BHP have announced plans to jointly mine up to 200 million tonnes (mt) of iron ore from their adjacent Yandicoogina and ...