China has field-tested an intelligent robotic mining vehicle at a depth of 2,000 meters (6,561 feet) in the western Pacific ...

KOLWEZI, Democratic Republic of Congo — Little about Kolwezi, a small city in southern Democratic Republic of Congo, hints at its global importance. Nondescript and ringed by slag heaps, pits and ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. In the decade since the world pledged ...

Aug 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. is seeking to procure cobalt worth up to $500 million for defense stockpiles amid the country's move to boost its critical mineral supplies. Companies have been scrambling ...

JOHANNESBURG/ LONDON (Reuters) -China's CMOC Group, the world's top cobalt mining company, called on Democratic Republic of Congo last week to lift a ban on exports of the battery metal, which is ...

The author, Dr. Timo Särkkä works as a Senior Researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. The research was conducted in collaboration with the Division of ...

The state cobalt agency in Democratic Republic of Congo has produced its first 1,000 metric tons of traceable artisanal ...

The country is considering extending a restriction on cobalt exports to further push up prices. It’s not the only mineral-rich country to try that. Tariffs aren’t the only thing restricting global ...

China’s cobalt mining company CMOC Group has requested that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) lift its current ban on cobalt exports, which is set to expire next month, reported Reuters, citing ...

President Trump is directing his administration to approve a controversial road that could enable copper and cobalt mining in Alaska, the White House announced Monday. In a fact sheet, the White House ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has evoked a Cold War-era law in an effort to expand the production of critical minerals, which could boost the prospects of new copper, nickel and cobalt mines in ...