As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims look at how close we really are extracting rare minerals ...

More than a year after Panama’s Supreme Court halted operations at a huge copper mine because its government concession was deemed unconstitutional, there’s a fresh push with the new Panamanian presid ...

Kiribati is reportedly in discussions with China to explore deep-sea mining opportunities, signaling a potential shift in its ...

Naval mines are an expensive problem — in lives and global trade. An AI-powered drone system bought by the UK and France ...

As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep ...

China's Sino-Metals Leach Zambia has been ordered to compensate all farmers and consumers affected by dam breach in the Kafue ...

China is touting a massive discovery that geologists say may be the largest gold deposit ever recorded. The find, reported by ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...

Kottayam: AICC general secretary (organization) and Alappuzha MP KC Venugopal dared chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan to show the courage to tell the Centre to stop the deep-sea sand mining off ...

Mr. Venugopal said the Centre’s decision to conduct offshore sand mining along the Kerala coast was driven by the sole objective of plundering the nation. “The decision to carry out deep-sea ...