CSIS Americas Program Senior Associate Bill Muntean assesses the viability of resource extraction in Antarctica.

China controls a majority of rare-earth extraction and processing, and the U.S. is looking to change that. The U.S. government has invested in USA Rare Earth and MP Materials to secure critical ...

March 17 (UPI) --Ecuador's armed forces destroyed 129 illegal mining camps inside Podocarpus National Park, an ecological reserve in southern Ecuador near the Peru border, after a nine-day military ...

"The biggest change in our field isn't a single molecule or machine," Antoine Gueguen said. "It's the realization that biology, when engineered and automated properly, can outperform chemistry at ...

Draft law allows foreign, domestic firms to exploit gold, diamonds, rare earths New law is latest in package of US-backed changes following removal of President Maduro At least one opposition party ...

Burgum, Rodriguez cheer shared desire for investment Venezuela plans mining law reform to attract foreign investment Two dozen companies join visit March 4 (Reuters) - Venezuela's interim President ...

FOR MOST of the past 30 years Western firms have been leaving rather than investing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, says Guy-Robert Lukama. The former chair of Gécamines, the main state-owned ...

The True North Gold Project will consist of underground mining extraction via four access points: the Main "A" Shaft, the Hinge decline, the Cohiba decline and later the SG-1 decline. Initial mining ...

Bitcoin’s BTC $66,868.23 mining difficulty dropped by around 11%, its largest decline since China’s 2021 crackdown on the industry, after a sharp decline in hashrate triggered by plunging prices and ...

Environmentalists are sounding the alarm on the potential harm of a precious metals mine that could be built on the doorstep of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Meanwhile, those who ...

NEWARK, DE / ACCESS Newswire / February 4, 2026 / Latin America's mining sector is entering a decisive modernization cycle. Driven by expanding copper and lithium projects, stricter ESG regulations, ...