Betolar has entered into a strategic collaboration with the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) and Australian company EcoGraf Limited in the Epanko graphite project in Tanzania. The aim of the ...

A team of researchers is developing new approaches to chemical synthesis and mineral processing based on solid-state chemistry -- and inspired by examples from nature. The unconventional approaches ...

A new one-step, water- acid- and alkali-free method for extracting high-purity lithium from spodumene ore has the potential to transform critical metal processing and enhance renewable energy supply ...

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a ...

Clean energy technologies are colliding with a hard geological limit: the world needs far more copper, lithium, manganese and rare earth elements than conventional mines are currently delivering. At ...

Rare earth elements sit quietly inside smartphones, electric vehicles, and wind turbines, yet they are notoriously difficult and dirty to produce. A new lab technique now promises to roughly double ...

Fifty years ago, scientists hit upon what they thought could be the next rocket fuel. Carboranes -- molecules composed of boron, carbon and hydrogen atoms clustered together in three-dimensional ...

Giving birth to invention out of necessity, a group of UA scientists found a new way to combat industrial corrosion — and a new, cleaner method of metals extraction for the mining industry in the ...

Mt Monger Resources Ltd. (AU:MTM) has released an update. MTM Critical Metals Limited has secured exclusive global rights to Flash Joule Heating technology from Rice University, promising to ...

pH7 Technologies has secured C$850,000 to further develop its sustainable critical metals extraction technology. The cash infusion will come from BC’s Innovative Clean Energy (ICE) Fund, which was ...