May 8, 2024 Critical minerals and the global supply chain: Challenges and opportunities One of the current difficulties with the global supply chain for critical minerals is that too few countries produce most of them.
May 7, 2024 US Strategic Metals, Missouri University partner on precursor cathode material research Currently, most of the pCAM in the world is produced outside the United States.
May 6, 2024 New method efficiently recovers phosphorus from sewage sludge Volatilization seems to be a promising approach for recovering phosphorus from sewage sludge.
May 3, 2024 Ever heard of strange metals? This is how to make them MIT physicists discovered a new way to make a state of matter known as a strange metal.
April 23, 2024 Rio Tinto donates $875,000 to Missouri University to research critical minerals recovery from waste Project will test new chemical dissolution strategies and purification techniques to produce pure gallium and germanium compounds from waste materials.
April 17, 2024 MSHA issues final rule to better protect miners from silica dust exposure The final rule lowers the permissible exposure limit of respirable crystalline silica to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air for a full-shift exposure.
April 17, 2024 Gold, copper-infused device quickly detects bacteria responsible for food poisoning The new gold-copper-infused device is expected to be a game-changer when it comes to the shipment of food and pharmaceutical products.
April 15, 2024 Composite material adorned with gold nanoparticles improves infectious disease testing Composite polymer particles adorned with gold nanoparticles deliver more accurate means of testing for infectious diseases.
April 11, 2024 Project to turn hydrogen into a powder for easy export gets $3.2 million in funding The Kotai Hydrogen project will use a new method of hydrogen production and transportation developed by Curtin’s Hydrogen Storage Research Group.
April 10, 2024 Byzantine bullion fueled Europe’s adoption of silver coins… until Charlemagne intervened Recent findings on the origins of silver coins could transform our understanding of Europe's economic and political development.
Ioneer eyes bid for Rio Tinto’s US boron unit Boron, an element mineral with few producers, was added to the US list of critical minerals last month. December 12, 2025 | 02:49 pm
