As larger, high-grade mineral deposits become harder to find and more CapEx-intensive to develop, more junior miners are ...

Gold prices are reaching historic highs (https://ibn.fm/5Vz3s), U.S. national debt continues to climb (https://ibn.fm/d9mQV) and central banks are purchasing gold at record-breaking levels ...

A Michigan Tech student’s 3D model of an iconic Upper Peninsula iron mine helps researchers visualize and measure the energy storage potential that awaits in abandoned hard-metal mines. Keweenaw ...

The opportunity to make big money is attracting huge investments to industrial-scale bitcoin mining, with thousands of supercomputer mining machines and enormous energy demand – so much energy that ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The mercury used to amalgamate gold is cheap, effective and toxic. Studies from artisanal and small-scale mining sites across the Amazon reveal ...

Richard Kwaku Kumah receives funding from International Development Research Centre under the IDRC Doctoral Research Award for his current PhD research on artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana.

To mark International Women’s Day we’re digging into an often overlooked, but critical sector for the global economy, and for many millions of women: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM). From gold, ...

Bitcoin is the future of money, but it doesn’t exist without mining it. There was a time when someone could mine from a laptop in their home, but competition forced operations to scale and hardware to ...

MANILA, Philippines — A global non-profit group has warned that a proposed P200-million capital cost cap on mineral processing plants for small-scale miners could create unintended risks over time.