During the Apollo missions, scientists discovered rare earth elements in its lunar samples. China and the U.S. are now ...

The 28th China Mining Conference and Exhibition is expected to take place in Tianjin from Sept 10 to 12, providing an ...

Mining company stocks sank Tuesday after China's latest moves to boost its economy fell short of a hoped-for major stimulus package.

Look around you, and you’ll see rare earth elements at work. A phone vibrates because a magnet moves a weight. Its screen was polished with cerium powder. Its connection to the rest of the world ...

A remote section of China's Great Wall has suffered nearly two decades of systematic destruction after coal mining companies ...

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Peru has an estimated 85 million metric tons of copper reserves, compared with about 41 million metric tons in China, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). China purchases roughly 70 percent ...

Chinese mining companies are accelerating their international acquisitions, marking the busiest year for overseas deals in over a decade as they move to secure vital raw materials essential to global ...

A retired top Air Force general has warned that China is mining a rare and powerful element from the moon that could give them the upper hand in the new space race. China confirmed its plans to build ...

Autonomous mining trucks haul ore back and forth, intelligent systems crunch data in real time, and mineral processing equipment hums along efficiently. At the 2026 China Mining Conference and ...

China’s Zijin Mining Group Co. is worth more than $100 billion at the market close for the first time, after a decade-long growth push that’s put it in the big league of metals miners along with Rio ...

EXCLUSIVE — The Department of Energy is offering a total of $16 million to advance critical mineral education across the country as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to expand the domestic ...