The U.S. Senate voted 50–49 Thursday to reverse a 20-year federal moratorium on mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

Indonesia will hike benchmark prices for nickel ore, further weighing on local processors facing cost pressures from the ...

Talon Metals on Wednesday submitted its plan for an underground nickel and copper mine in Aitkin County to Minnesota regulators, launching the environmental review of a project that could become a ...

The demand for metals will increase significantly in the coming years, primarily because the climate-friendly transformation of the economy is only possible through the electrification of industrial ...

Every year, the world consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand, gravel and crushed stone. The astonishing scale of this demand is hard to comprehend – 12.5 million Olympic sized swimming pools per ...

A surprising discovery in Spain could explain how metal made its way to Scandinavia 3,000 years ago during the Bronze Age.

"Gambling on Ore examines the development of the western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early twentieth century, using ...