Officials boast on social media that Oklahoma is a "one phone call state," a description meant to evoke what they see as a ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to promote mining of the deep-sea floor, a controversial way to get critical minerals that are used in a wide range of electronics and ...

The decisive factor in this initiative is clear: China's current dominance over the mining and refinement of critical minerals. The executive order effectively proclaims that, while China now ...

Group of Seven leaders provisionally agreed Monday on a strategy to help protect the supply of critical minerals and bolster their economies, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters.

Marketplace contributor Daniel Ackerman says deep-sea mining companies are innovating for how to efficiently mine rare Earth ...

With multiple county-wide hazardous waste sites in the area due to 300 years of mining, health and environmental concerns ...

This decision comes amidst growing concerns over supply chain vulnerabilities, highlighted by China's suspension of critical ...

global project leader for Greenpeace’s campaign to stop deep-sea mining. While the appetite for many critical minerals is soaring, some experts say demand can be brought down by recycling ...

Critical minerals our world needs for electric vehicles and semiconductors can be found here. Clean energy we need to power ...

As renewable energy gathers steam around the world, the harms of mining its mineral components continue to grow. On the environmental front, for example, there’s the destruction of Indonesian ...

What’s unknown, however, is whether these minerals can ever be gathered cheaply enough to compete with mining them in more conventional ways. Extracting critical minerals from solid waste like ...