The Interior Department will simplify federal rules for recovering minerals like rare earths, lithium, and cobalt from mine ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed his department to streamline federal regulations on the recovery of the minerals.

A 1,000-tonne ship is exploring the far-flung South Pacific for riches buried beneath the waves, spearheading efforts to ...

Green EU lawmakers say they cannot access impact assessments for ‘strategic’ mining projects approved under the Critical Raw ...

The integration of quadrupeds or ‘robotic dogs’ into mining workflows is a promising step towards safer, smarter and more automated operations ...

When researchers discovered "dark oxygen" last year, the news spread around the world, but the biggest challenge to the ...

Happy Gilmore 2 is the funniest movie of the year so far by default, if only because no other movies really try to go for laugh-a-minute comedy like this any longer. The new Naked Gun movie will ...

The global scuba diving industry generates between $8.5 billion and $20.4 billion each year, while also providing widespread ...

Kneeling on all fours near a Luzerne County stream, Bobby Hughes peers intently at a mesh net containing wet sticks, pebbles ...

An aerial view shows the Cananea Consolidated Copper Co., a mine and smelter complex south of the Arizona-Sonora border. The Cananea mine to this day is a major producer of copper.

Good afternoon and happy Thursday, readers! The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has formally given the go-ahead for the ...

Finding new materials with useful properties is a primary goal for materials scientists, and it's central to improving ...