In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a time when carmakers want the metal for electric-vehicle batteries, nickel ...

Mining companies heavily depending on iron ore extraction have booked high margins over the last years on the back of elevated ore prices. The majority of demand for iron ore comes from China, which ...

This summary examines the extraction of boron from ludwigite ore, a complex and low-grade source of boron that constitutes a significant portion of global boron reserves. Innovative methods have ...

Facilitated by two non-binding MoUs, the initiative covers joint work at Rio Tinto’s Wunbye deposit and processing BHP’s Yandi ore at the former’s wet plants.

Sweden’s mining company LKAB is relocating the entire town of Kiruna—including a 113-year-old church—to enable continued iron ore extraction. The Kiruna area hosts Europe’s largest known rare earth ...

REUTERS - India, in its crusade against illegal mining, has over the past few years choked its iron ore output and exports so hard that many companies had to give up on the sector. The Supreme Court ...