The main bottleneck to critical mineral supplies, he said, is the lack of a refining and processing infrastructure for the minerals, and pulling rocks from the depths will not change that.

It will also need a suite of other rare earth elements and minerals that many of us first heard about this week when China announced export controls that would effectively cut off the global ...

Creating demand for minerals “is best done by ensuring clean ... which would help get those rocks to port.) And the nation’s landmark climate-infrastructure law, the Inflation Reduction ...

Earth and minerals are loaded onto trucks at an open-pit mine in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Zelensky confirmed Wednesday an agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine that would send 50% of the ...

It is about the same size, contains similar rocks and minerals, and is not too much farther out from the sun. Because Mars and Earth share so many features, scientists have long wondered whether ...

A research team studied unusual rocks in Iceland to better understand the Late Antique Little Ice Age. The team believes that rapid climate cooling contributed to a mass migration of people within ...