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Is asteroid mining actually feasible? Meteorite chemistry data offers new insight - AOL
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (837+ words) Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small asteroids actually made of, in measurable detail? Their findings, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, use…...
We visited Greenland's only fully operational mine. Here's what it takes to mine in one of the world's most remote places.
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (1037+ words) Greenland has no shortage of valuable minerals. What it lacks is almost everything else needed to extract them. Greenland is one of the most logistically hostile environments on the planet " a place with no roads between towns, limited labor, and…...
Australia's richest person must share part of her mining fortunes, court rules
20+ hour, 25+ min ago (458+ words) Australia's wealthiest person Gina Rinehart must part with some of her riches, a court has ruled in a high-profile dispute over her mining empire. Worth an estimated A$38bn (20bn; $27bn), Rinehart inherited the iron ore ventures of her father in 1992, before going…...
Australia's richest person ordered to share mining royalties after decade-long dispute
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (576+ words) Australia's wealthiest person Gina Rinehart must pay royalties to the descendants of her late father's business partner, a court has ruled following a decade-long legal battle involving one of the country's largest iron ore mines. The Supreme Court of Western…...
New Mexico's Once-Thriving Mining Town Now Sits Abandoned
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (559+ words) AOL. com While you may think of ghost towns in relation to the American West, they actually exist all over the United States. Some stand on private property, and you're only allowed to see their crumbling buildings from a distance,…...
Nine of 10 kidnapped miners found dead as Mexico investigates if company is to blame
1+ week, 2+ day ago (526+ words) Nine of the 10 Vizsla Silver workers kidnapped in Mexico have now been found dead, the Canadian mining company has confirmed. " The miners were abducted in Concordia, a city in the state of Sinaloa, on January 23. According to Latin US, the…...
Watch: Mexican miner found after nearly 2 weeks trapped in collapsed mine underground
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (369+ words) EL ROSARIO, Mexico" A 42-year-old miner was discovered and rescued after 13 days trapped underground in a collapsed mine in Mexico. On March 25, the tailings dam collapsed at the Santa Fe gold mine, trapping four miners inside. The Government of Mexico…...
China's 2025 rare earth exports hit highest since at least 2014 despite restrictions
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (244+ words) By Amy Lv and Lewis Jackson BEIJING, Jan 14 (Reuters) - China's rare earth exports in 2025 hit the "highest level since at least 2014, even as "Beijing began restricting shipments of several medium to heavy elements from April. The world's "top producer last…...
Japan retrieves rare earth-rich mud from seabed to lower reliance on China
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (443+ words) The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu successfully gathered the sediment at a depth of nearly 6, 000 meters (19, 700 feet) near the island of Minamitorishima, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said in a statement on X. The test retrieval of the rare earths from that depth…...
Deadline nears for Ouachita Forest mining comments
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (568+ words) The deadline to weigh in on a proposed mining project in the Ouachita National Forest is approaching fast. Public comments on the U. S. Forest Service's "Mining Nominations Project," which could open nearly 300 acres in Garland and Saline counties to quartz mining…...