Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...

Initiative is focused on recovering critical minerals such as arsenic, zinc and possibly tungsten from copper mine tailings.

Effective tailings management is rightly being prioritized more than ever to ensure that regulators, communities surrounding mine sites, stakeholders, investors and the general public can have ...

As pressure mounts on the global mining industry to secure raw materials while reducing environmental harm, a once-overlooked ...

As the global mining industry shifts toward more rigorous environmental transparency, two Philippine mining giants – Philex ...

LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A group of investors managing more than $25 trillion said they plan to challenge mining companies that have not yet committed to a tailings dam best-practice standard and ...

Across the West, early miners digging for gold, silver and copper had no idea that one day something else very valuable would be buried in the piles of dirt and rocks they tossed aside. There's a rush ...

A Tucson-based startup aims to turn mine tailings into usable products with technology invented by University of Arizona researchers, and it’s going after a big prize to advance its efforts. Auxilium ...

THE Philippines, a country rich in mineral resources, has long been plagued by the challenges of mine waste management.

Researchers have developed a new mining technique which uses microbes to recover metals and store carbon in the waste produced by mining. Adopting this technique of reusing mining waste, called ...

Century-old silver mines are long gone. But tainted tailings are still polluting Park City. Now the feds are suing to clean up the Superfund site. What are now world-class ski runs used to be ...