LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - The Longview city council will consider a special permit for a new operation in biomining. Biomining is the process of using microorganisms to extract metals of economic value ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s teeming ...

A new partnership between Genome British Columbia (Genome BC) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) Bradshaw Research ...

Microbes can be used like little factories to churn out important or valuable chemicals. Now researchers are learning how to use bacteria to produce important metals. This process, called biomining, ...

History has viewed mining as a job that requires a lot of heavy machinery and physical labor. Pulling valuable material out of the ground has been necessary for human progress for thousands of years.

Recent experiments aboard the International Space Station have shown that some microbes can harvest valuable rare-earth elements from rocks, even when exposed to microgravity conditions. The ...

For centuries, humans have mined materials to build the tools we use every day, from batteries and cell phones to airplanes and refrigerators. While the process of obtaining these important minerals ...

The Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation (KDMC) has initiated the second phase of the biomining project at the Aadharwadi dumping ground. Under this ambitious plan, approximately nine lakh metric ...

CHENNAI: The Greater Chennai Corporation has cleared 52.64 lakh tonnes of legacy waste from the Perungudi and Kodungaiyur dump yards through biomining, reclaiming over 100 acres of land so far, ...