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Iowa filmmaker highlights critical material mining in Boone, Ames Lab - AOL
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (592+ words) Ames filmmaker Eric Smidt is returning to the Interrobang Film Festival with a new short documentary that connects local innovation to a growing national conversation. "Urban Mining" will screen at 4 p. m. Saturday, June 27, at the Des Moines Public Library during the…...
Trump's critical minerals pricing plan faces skeptical G7, divided industry - AOL
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (1311+ words) By Julia Payne and Ernest Scheyder "VIAN-LES-BAINS, France, June 15 (Reuters) - The Trump administration's push to boost critical minerals production by regulating prices is facing skeptical G7 allies and a divided mining industry, with negotiations for a Western trading bloc stumbling over…...
Barabak: This historic Nevada mining town has seen better days. Trump is excavating hope - AOL
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (1419+ words) Some years ago, Harry Chahal and his wife were on a trip to Las Vegas when, like countless motorists before and since, they passed through this high desert speck of a town. Tonopah, built by the mining industry around 1900 and…...
The Columbia Mine Preserve | A Hiker's Path - AOL
1+ week, 1+ day ago (802+ words) It was a beautiful weekend to be out on the trail. The temperature was in the mid seventies and the sky was sunny and blue. I made my way down to Southern Indiana to the Columbia Mine preserve. Located in…...
This Former Bitcoin Miner May Be Sitting on a Hidden AI Opportunity - AOL
1+ week, 5+ day ago (829+ words) Keel Infrastructure -- formerly Bitfarms -- is evolving from a Bitcoin miner into a digital infrastructure company focused on handling power-hungry AI workloads. The company's most valuable assets may be its access to electricity and data center infrastructure. 10 stocks we like better…...
The good and the bad of Missouri's American Shaman 7-OH settlement | Hudnall - AOL
1+ week, 4+ day ago (620+ words) Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced what sounded like a major victory Thursday. American Shaman, the Kansas City company that helped popularize the highly addictive gas station drug known as 7-OH, agreed to stop selling its kratom-derived products in Missouri....
'By the grace of God': Miners dig on as lab-grown diamonds change market - AOL
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1257+ words) The rising popularity of lab-grown diamonds has caused a big fall in the price of the mined gems. In the West African nation of Sierra Leone the country's biggest diamond mine has closed. Stripped to the waist, men toil in…...
Nine coal miners die in gas explosion in Colombia - AOL
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (271+ words) Nine people have died in an explosion at a coal mine in Colombia in the latest fatal accident to hit the country's mining sector. Emergency workers said they had rescued six miners from the shafts in Sutatausa, north of the…...
Louisiana rare earth plant wins $67 million federal grant - AOL
1+ week, 6+ day ago (285+ words) (The Center Square) - The U. S. Department of Energy awarded $67 million in funding to Element USA and its partner the Colorado School of Mines for the construction and operation of a demonstration plant designed to extract and process rare earth elements from…...
Ossoff says Kazakhstan called Trump on tungsten mining rights " then "6 days later" his sons got a stake in the company that won the contract - AOL
1+ week, 2+ day ago (922+ words) Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) is raising questions about a Kazakhstan mining project that has become linked to Donald Trump's sons, saying in a recent X post (1) that "$1. 6 billion of your tax dollars" is backing the venture that's now expanding the…...