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The U.S. Interior Department on Monday proposed a sale this year of deep-sea mining leases in U.S. waters surrounding the Northern Mariana Islands, the latest step in President Donald Trump’s push to expand domestic supplies of critical minerals

Africa stands at the nexus of geopolitical competition for critical materials that power the energy transition, defense, and digital economies. Combined, Africa holds about one-third of global critical mineral reserves. But it remains burdened by colonial-era geological surveys and infrastructure and exports its bounty largely unprocessed into Chinese-dominated supply chains. Middle powers like the United…

The U.S. Interior Department has proposed a lease of more than 31 million acres off the coast of American Samoa for seabed mining, part of President Donald Trump’s broader push to boost U.S. critical minerals production

DIGITAL is providing C$6.7 million to support one mining technology project focused on precision extraction and another aimed at AI-powered ecological restoration

Over half of mollusc species that cluster around underwater vents and hold promising potential for medicine and technology are at risk of going extinct due to increasing deep-sea mining, the world’s largest conservation network warned on Thursday

Caterpillar has acquired Skycatch, a spatial data capture and mine-site analytics company that is expected to strengthen Cat automation, as well as mine safety and productivity

Canadian country music singer Corb Lund said he’s “frustrated, but not surprised” after being told by Elections Alberta that the citizens’ petition he spearheaded to ban coal mining in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains, didn’t have enough verified signatures to proceed