Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The U.S. and European Union have intensified efforts to secure the minerals needed for a clean energy transition. But as investment grows, so does ...

An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of ...

The sons of President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stand to see a big windfall after businesses tied to the families helped secure a $1.6 billion mining deal in Kazakhstan, according to ...

Donald Trump's sons' financial ties to a major mining project backed by their father's administration have apparently rankled even some within the president's inner circle. A New York Times ...

Bags of chemicals lie near pools of blue liquid. A mine in northern Myanmar leaches rare earths out of the soil in 2022. Mining the minerals this way can generate significant water pollution. Credit: ...

UNREK, Kazakhstan — When Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick met with Kazakhstan’s president at the St. Regis Hotel last September in New York, President Donald Trump jumped in by phone as the men ...

The U.S. Army will allow several companies to build critical minerals processing plants at military bases around the country, Bloomberg reported Thursday, as the Trump administration pushes for more ...

The U.S. Army is leasing land on bases across the country to companies that will build and operate critical mineral processing plants, military officials said Thursday, the latest push by the Trump ...

First Daughter Ivanka Trump made headlines last month when she shared in an interview that she and Jared Kushner are hard at work building a $1.4 billion luxury resort on an uninhabited island off the ...

June 25 (Reuters) - Canadian miner Titan Mining (TI.TO), opens new tab and U.S.-based REalloys (ALOY.O), opens new tab said on Thursday they were selected by the U.S. Army to develop processing ...

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