Kolwezi in the Lualaba Province of the southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where tensions are high between artisanal miners and industrial companies, holds 70 percent of the world’s ...

ASTANA – Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) in Africa and Enterprise Générale du Cobalt (EGC) have signed a memorandum of ...

Within the global hierarchy of critical minerals that miners are racing to extract, cobalt remains highly sought after. We ...

Commissioned by TMC, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence assessed the impact of mining on terrestrial carbon sinks in top nickel and cobalt producing regions "Forest ecosystems play a critical role in the ...

Former Dayton Congressman Tony Hall has been working to spread the word about a problem new to many Americans: Forced child labor in the African mining of the cobalt used to power many of our ...

Penn researchers led a collaborative effort pioneering safer, more sustainable technique to extract elements critical to battery-powered technologies. Findings pave the way for getting value from ...

Urgent regulatory measures applicable to the mining and processing of artisanal cobalt ore 4. Any mixing of cobalt ores from uncertified artisanal or semi-industrial mining with ores from industrial ...

Electra Battery Materials has awarded a US$6.1 million (C$8.3 million) contract to EXP Services (EXP). EXP will provide ...

Reduced ecological footprint: Ores mined in the deep sea (left) can be reduced with a hydrogen plasma in an electric arc furnace, after drying. This produces manganese oxides and a manganese- and ...

While record gold and silver prices are garnering most of the headlines as of late, a number of commodities have posted their own standout run-ups, succeeding in the shadows of these precious metals.

At ERG Africa, we believe that legitimate artisanal mining plays an important socio-economic role in the DRC," - Davron ...