Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s teeming ...

History has viewed mining as a job that requires a lot of heavy machinery and physical labor. Pulling valuable material out of the ground has been necessary for human progress for thousands of years.

A new partnership between Genome British Columbia (Genome BC) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) Bradshaw Research ...

Researchers are putting mining methods to the test in microgravity to see if asteroids could provide a vast new source of valuable materials and trace elements As humanity moves closer to the ...

For centuries, humans have mined materials to build the tools we use every day, from batteries and cell phones to airplanes and refrigerators. While the process of obtaining these important minerals ...

Clean energy technologies are colliding with a hard geological limit: the world needs far more copper, lithium, manganese and rare earth elements than conventional mines are currently delivering. At ...

Rare earth metals are coveted raw materials needed for many technical devices. However, there are only a few places where they are mined and refined, mainly in China. Researchers are looking for ...

Scientists have used biomining fungi to harvest palladium from meteorites on the International Space Station. The approach can be used for harvesting resources from extra-terrestrial surfaces or ...

Kochi: The biomining operations have started at Valakuzhi, near Muvattupuzha, a site that has turned into a massive waste mound over the years. The Kerala Solid Waste Management Project has allocated ...

Chennai: At a time when public resistance brought the waste-to-energy (WtE) project to a halt, Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has moved decisively to revive and expand biomining operations as the ...

T'puram: Despite the closure of the centralized waste treatment plant at Vilappilsala years ago, legacy waste still blights around four to five acres of the 46-acre site. The corporation has submitted ...