When it comes time to fret about minerals critical to the energy transition, lithium, cobalt and nickel may get all the attention, but another metal is keeping plenty of analysts up at night. Though ...

If manganese nodules can be mined in an environmentally friendly way, the critical metals needed for the energy transition could be produced with low ...

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Mining isn’t known for innovation. For more than a century, we’ve extracted copper using the same process: dig, crush, grind, leach, repeat. Meanwhile, demand has exploded, fueled by EVs, AI ...

Rio Tinto has achieved a milestone with the first copper produced from Gunnison Copper’s Johnson Camp mine in Arizona, US, using Nuton copper processing technology. The Nuton technology, the result of ...

Sixty-five miles east of the sun-drenched city of Tucson, Arizona, lies the historic copper mine, Johnson Camp. Active on and off since the 1970s, the mine is being resurrected in response to a ...

Freeport-McMoRan's Q3 2023 results demonstrate strong performance and technological leadership in copper extraction. The bull thesis for copper stocks, based on structural shortages, may be challenged ...

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Reduced ecological footprint: Ores mined in the deep sea (left) can be reduced with a hydrogen plasma in an electric arc furnace, after drying. This produces manganese oxides and a manganese- and ...

Global demand for copper, nickel and cobalt is expected to more than double by 2050. Producing these metals from deep-sea manganese nodules would, among other things, avoid deforestation and generate ...