The Metals Company, a prominent seabed-mining company, applauded the change and filed a new application more than doubling the area it hopes to mine. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey On Wednesday, the ...

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Investors have been bullish on mining stocks, led by gold and silver's surges. However, appetite has cooled over the past six months, according to a Citi note that shows 'Buy' ratings have dipped. The ...

President Donald Trump’s desire to claim Greenland for the U.S. has thrust the island’s wealth of natural resources firmly into the spotlight. But while geopolitical chatter can make it sound as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Commercial deep-sea mining seeks to harvest potato-sized "polymetallic nodules" containing cobalt, nickel, copper and manganese ...

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The Trump administration is accelerating the permitting timeline for deep-seabed mining applications. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) unveiled revisions to the regulatory ...

A $20 million agency project will aid companies prospecting the sea for critical minerals. By Eric Niiler and Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is shifting from ...

JOHANNESBURG—For years, hundreds of illegal miners known locally as zama zamas prospected for gold on this patch of land on the outskirts of the city with hammers and chisels in hand-dug tunnels. Now, ...

The Trump administration, with the support of many congressional Republicans, is looking to boost deep-sea mining as a way to counter Chinese dominance of critical minerals supply chains. The National ...

Scientists will lower instruments to the seafloor to figure out how metallic nodules are generating oxygen in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, an unexpected phenomenon that has fuelled controversy ...

A tiny mining town in western North Carolina was among those battered by Hurricane Helene — and the damage could have serious implications for the massive tech-industry supply chain that relies on it.