Building in StarRupture is similar to Satisfactory. The best part about building a new base to extract resources is automating the entire base and making sure the entire factory is working itself to ...

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 ...

This Collection welcomes original research articles on metal extraction from ore and related technological innovations, optimization strategies, energy‑saving approaches, and environmental impacts, ...

Amid rising demand, miners are turning to biotech firms to help them squeeze more metal out of aging mines. In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is ...

Sweden’s mining company LKAB is relocating the entire town of Kiruna—including a 113-year-old church—to enable continued iron ore extraction. The Kiruna area hosts Europe’s largest known rare earth ...

Hackaday has a long-running series on Mining and Refining, that tracks elements of interest on the human-made road from rocks to riches. What author Dan Maloney doesn’t address in that series is the ...

For years, investors have heard the same story about iron ore. China’s economy is slowing. Their property market is ...

In mining operations, crushing and screening are often discussed as individual machines, along with the spare and wear parts ...

A Chinese campaign aimed at driving down the price of iron ore could have the unintended effect of keeping prices high or even lifting them further. That perverse result could result if two of the ...

For good reason, mining and conservation are typically understood to be activities that exist in opposition to each other.