Demand for lithium is rising fast as electric vehicles, wind turbines, and grid-scale batteries ...

A team of researchers is developing new approaches to chemical synthesis and mineral processing based on solid-state chemistry -- and inspired by examples from nature. The unconventional approaches ...

Silver can now be extracted ecologically and more efficiently than before. Researchers extracted silver from a process stream using an environmentally friendly ion exchange technique. The technique ...

A technology company is using bacterium to pioneer new methods of extraction in the oil and mining industries.

A new one-step, water- acid- and alkali-free method for extracting high-purity lithium from spodumene ore has the potential to transform critical metal processing and enhance renewable energy supply ...

MaverickX, which was born in San Antonio and is moving to Austin this year, is built on a bacterium that dissolves rock as a ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) partners with Rio Tinto's Nuton Technology to leverage bioleaching techniques for copper extraction ...

Carbon-negative mining offers a promising path to meeting the mineral demands of the energy transition while shrinking the ...