Researchers found that U.S. metal mines already contain large amounts of critical minerals that are mostly going unused. Recovering even a small fraction of these byproducts could sharply reduce ...

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President Donald Trump spent most of 2025 hacking away at large parts of the federal government. His administration fired, bought out, or otherwise ousted hundreds of thousands of federal employees.

As President Trump returned from his trip to Asia in October, he boasted that his bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping was a “spectacular success.” The reality is, he has little to show ...

Ionic Mineral Technologies was mining the clay in Utah when it chanced upon what could be the critical mineral equivalent of a gold mine. Ionic MT had leased the land as part of its business producing ...

ROLLA, Mo. – Scientists in Missouri are actively pursuing dozens of minerals, including rare ones, that have been found across the state. The race to uncover these types of minerals saw the geological ...

MISSOURI — Missouri is home to economically viable deposits of 36 of the 60 critical minerals identified by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as essential to the nation’s economy and security, the ...

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is working with partners to study minerals with known deposits in the state that are vital to the economy and national security. In a Monday news release, ...

Melting Arctic ice is making previously inaccessible mineral reserves reachable, triggering a surge of global interest from the U.S., Canada, Russia, Denmark, and Norway. Governments are pursuing ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and nickel are crucial for renewable energy technologies and electric vehicles, but their mining and ...

"Mineral-only" sunscreens are making huge inroads into the sunscreen market, driven by fears of "chemicals," a belief that "mineral" products are inherently safer, and confusion about how sunscreens ...