A Lawton nickel refinery is trying to prove the U.S. can successfully manufacture critical minerals and minimize geopolitical ...

Definitions vary as to which minerals and metals are genuinely critical, but one thing is certain. The prices of many of them ...

Advocates are hailing a decision by the Department of Defense to take a 15% stake in a Nevada-based mining company. The federal government is pouring $400 million into MP Materials, based in Las Vegas ...

After months of tense negotiations – including one particularly fiery meeting in the White House Oval Office between United States President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in ...

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In this study, researchers investigated dozens of minerals abandoned in waste rocks in mines that could fulfill the country's ...

It is a striking pivot from Trump, and analysts say that Pakistan’s minerals promise could play a key catalyst role.

The U.S. government is seeking to retrieve critical minerals from mine waste by awarding 13 states nearly $3 million to ...

India now commands the largest area allocated in the international seabed for Polymetallic Sulphides exploration. Here's why ...

President Donald Trump has touted an agreement on Ukrainian minerals as a good deal for the U.S. but experts warn that a long process lies ahead to get the resources out of the ground for American use ...