January 3, 2023 University of Oulu gets €1.6 million funding to expedite emission-free steel industry The Advanced Steels for a Green Planet project funded by the Tiina and Antti Herlin Foundation begins in January.
January 3, 2023 Mining’s biggest future challenges will be meeting sustainability expectations – and adapting to the metaverse The mining industry’s biggest challenge will be to adapt to changes and to meet the demands of a highly sophisticated and virtualized society, writes the winner of the 2022 Northern…
December 30, 2022 New Year’s resolutions for miners – 2023 Timothy Foden, partner in international arbitration group at law firm Boies Schiller Flexner looks forward at legal challenges facing the mining industry.
December 30, 2022 Scientists working towards stopping lithium-ion battery degradation Researchers want to move towards designing longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries.
December 29, 2022 Two minerals never seen on earth extracted from meteorite sample Ever heard about elaliite and elkinstantonite?
December 28, 2022 Women in Mining Spotlight: Cat Culkin Cat Culkin, chief technology officer at Pronto.ai on a virtual site visit in California.
December 27, 2022 Extraterrestrial manganese turns out to be oxygen-free Researchers discovered that under Mars-like conditions, manganese oxides can be readily formed without atmospheric oxygen.
December 26, 2022 Turns out that gold objects were also valued during the Bronze Age Archaeologists identified a 4000-year-old gold-working toolkit amongst the grave goods from an important Bronze Age burial near Stonehenge.
December 22, 2022 How virtual reality makes geology more accessible Students and other people interested in geology can have a ‘dry run’ experience and review techniques before reaching an actual site.
December 20, 2022 New model allows for balancing rare plant protection, mine development Researchers at Utah State University are mapping out strategies that allow balancing the emerging demand for mining and energy development projects on the Colorado Plateau.
Lithium swings from glut to scarcity on Asia demand, Traxys says Lithium is emerging from a period of oversupply after record-high prices spurred supply growth at a time of disappointing demand. January 16, 2026 | 01:05 pm
