March 21, 2025 University of Arizona mining innovation engine aims to build skilled domestic workforce Arizona’s Sustainable Mining Innovation Engine proposal would secure up to $160 million over 10 years.
March 7, 2025 Biotech company BPH plans to extract critical minerals, gold from seaweed BPH's assay results support the company's belief that seaweed may have the ability to absorb precious and base metals from seawater.
February 27, 2025 Three novel approaches that can revolutionize batteries Scientists are scrambling to find new materials that could revolutionize energy storage.
February 10, 2025 New book explores Viola MacMillan’s rise and scandal in Canadian mining MacMillan, who started out as a prospector in the ’30s, became the central figure in one of Canada's most commented mining scandals.
February 4, 2025 Seoultech researchers develop autonomous geological assessment tool A research team at the Seoul National University of Science and Technology have developed the Roughness-CANUPO-Dip-Facet method.
February 3, 2025 Mattiq, Heraeus Precious Metals partner to advance green hydrogen production The companies said they will shorten the R&D-to-commercialization timeline, rapidly advancing low-iridium catalysts from prototype to industrial-scale solutions.
January 23, 2025 How Ledcor’s people are adapting to drive growth in its Heavy Civil division From technology to processes, mining professionals have to quickly learn to handle many shifting aspects of the job.
January 15, 2025 Rio Tinto, UNBC to research water security, fish ecology in Nechako Watershed A total of $1.75 million in funding from Rio Tinto will support two research chairs at UNBC for the next five years.
January 14, 2025 Sodium-ion batteries could rival lithium-ion in cost, Stanford study finds Sodium-ion batteries could rival lithium-ion batteries in cost by the 2030s.
December 31, 2024 New year’s resolutions for miners – 2025 Timothy Foden, co-head of the arbitration group at Boies Schiller Flexner, looks at legal challenges facing the mining industry.
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
