Why gold loves arsenic (2021)

KoBold Metals says Zambia copper find largest in a century

An international team of researchers has published a study showing that the destruction of key hydrothermal vents by deep-sea mining could have knock-on impacts on vent fields hundreds of kilometers away.

Precious metals no longer needed in reactions to produce hydrogen fuel – study

AI reveals melting temperature of all known earthly minerals - For the most part, there was a gradual decrease in the calculated melting temperatures of minerals identified on earth in more recent times…

The looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it

$5B hoard of metal the world wants but can’t have

Gallium helps convert CO2 into Carbon and Oxygen

Discovery may give solar cells 1,000% more power

Food-grade solvent can be used to extract rare earth metals from coal ash

Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater

Deep mines in Sweden considered microbial graveyards

Scientists find new way to calculate diamonds’ age more accurately, providing a potential breakthrough not only in the study of diamonds but of planetary evolution.

Gates, Bezos-backed fund offers $1bn to clean energy start-ups

It is possible to recover lithium cobalt oxide from spent batteries – study

Nano-diamond battery that "lasts for 28k years" closer to commercialization

Scientists discover “glassy” lithium

Fossilized fish linked to rare earths deposits

Termite mounds reveal hidden base metal deposits - new research

US steps up efforts to limit China’s control of critical minerals