In 2023, the program’s scientists accelerated their efforts to explore the critical mineral content of mine waste located in tailings ponds and rock piles around the country. Mine waste is considered ...

“The United States was once the world’s largest producer of lucrative minerals, but overbearing Federal regulation has eroded our Nation’s mineral production,” according to the president’s order. “Our ...

Australian scientists are exploring ways to extract rare earth metals, like gallium and germanium, more efficiently from mining waste. These are crucial in semiconductor manufacturing and are ...

Even once you get past the permitting and legal blockades from environmentalists, bringing a mine to production can take 10 years or longer.

Mineral extraction startup BlueShift has launched with a pre-seed round of $2.1 million to build it first pilot project, BlueShift founder and CEO Deep Patel tells Axios. Why it matters: Critical ...

Critics have slammed proposals for an incinerator, saying it threatens the very resource that defines the region: its mineral springs. “The idea of building a waste incinerator next to the medicinal ...

Of particular relevance to Sasquatch is that there are substantial waste rock piles from old mining activity within the Claim area. These waste piles, as well as some areas where surface ...

To put this in context 2,460Mt of waste was generated within the EU-28 in 2012 (UK 240Mt), of which 920Mt was non-mineral waste (UK 120Mt) (source). Wasting this energy means that emissions of both ...

Yuliot said that plastic waste will be processed using pyrolysis technology to produce fuel oil. Meanwhile, organic waste will be used to produce bioenergy “in the form of either biogas or biomass.” ...