There is an aspect of coal mining that gets relatively little attention, even though it is growing in popularity, It is with this method that I will conclude this series on mining, and its precursor ...

New research shows that magnesium and other metals in mine waste can be solubilized and recovered thanks to acid-producing bacteria. Researcher Nathan van Wyk believes that the method has great ...

Historically, lithium has been produced using two approaches: hard rock mining of spodumene deposits, as seen at the ...

A five-year test programme on an innovative mining method that could potentially be used to access high-grade orebodies that are either too small or too deep to be mined economically using ...

A method called ‘flash Joule heating,’ which was originally developed to produce graphene from carbon sources like food waste, has been adapted by researchers at Rice University to recover rhodium, ...

Geologists from ETH Zurich and the University of Melbourne have established a link between diamond occurrence and the mineral olivine. According to the study’s lead author, Andrea Giuliani, olivine is ...