Researchers found that U.S. metal mines already contain large amounts of critical minerals that are mostly going unused.

The Cook Islands—population 15,000—are being courted by the two superpowers as they hunt for rare earths, and could stand to ...

Canada’s Critical Minerals Strategy, the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and international mineral security partnerships aren’t ...

A huge discovery in Utah County's Lake Mountains is generating confidence that the United States will not have to be so reliant on China for mining materials.

A recent drill survey has discovered what might be North America's largest-known deposit of so-called "critical minerals." ...

But a new report suggests that the Pentagon is engaging with the issue in one serious way: As it stockpiles dozens of ...

Scientists have uncovered new details explaining why iron oxide minerals are such effective long-term carbon traps in soils.

BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – State-owned minerals are projected to generate $8.4 billion in future oil and gas ...

Washington must move even faster to bolster critical minerals projects and offset Beijing's grip on the world's supply of the building blocks for electronics, weapons and a range of other goods, three ...

Korea Zinc said it would spend billions of dollars to build a smelter of strategic materials in Clarksville, Tenn., in ...

In the wake of a wildfire, a vital micronutrient can become a toxic heavy metal—and could eventually make its way into groundwater.

While scientists have long known that iron oxide minerals help lock away enormous amounts of carbon—sequestering it from the ...