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The speculative gold and silver miner is benefiting from rising commodity prices. The stock may be up big in the last year, but it is still down 72% from all-time highs. Here's why Hycroft Mining ...

Space mining tech is advancing as robotic systems make asteroid exploration and resource analysis increasingly viable. Autonomous rovers now assess asteroid composition using laser-based spectroscopy, ...

For more than a decade, The Metals Company has poured millions of dollars into researching and developing technology for mining seafloors at extreme depths, funding scientific studies to evaluate the ...

Scientific studies show substantial reductions in deep-sea biodiversity following mining tests, with impacts potentially lasting decades. Governments are split between environmental caution and the ...

The bill would restore a mining policy on public land that'd been blocked by a 2022 court decision. Nevada Democrats Steven Horsford and Catherine Cortez Masto support the bill while Susie Lee and ...

Sangha Renewables, in partnership with TotalEnergies and Links Genco, cut the ribbon on its 19.9 MW bitcoin mining facility in West Texas, combining behind-the-meter solar power with digital ...

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On Indonesia’s Buru Island, eucalyptus farmer Mahani switched professions and became a gold miner to make more money. He is just one of many who joined a gold rush. In 2011, gold was found on the ...

The moon is about to become the first extraterrestrial mining frontier, and most investors may be backing the wrong players. While venture capital pours into space startups promising to revolutionize ...

When Joel Sercel thinks about the promise of extracting valuable resources from asteroids for use in space, he recalls other world-changing technologies that exploded when the time and circumstances ...