Mining

by Micaela Burrow   The Biden administration has begun using funds from a $40 billion Ukraine aid package Congress passed in 2022 to rebuild American manufacturing capacity and restock weapons and scope out critical mineral mining…

House Republicans introduced legislation Friday that would forbid foreign companies with known human rights violations from leasing and operating mines on federal land, part of a broader effort to…

by Scott McClallen   President Joe Biden’s administration says electric vehicle adoption is key to curbing climate change but blocked mining of rare earth minerals on more than 225,000 acres of federal land for more than 20 years. The…

The Biden administration may fund 12 critical mineral mining projects in foreign countries to advance its climate agenda despite continuously impeding domestic mining ventures, Axios reported Monday. Under Secretary of State for…

Three men from the pits of the Minnesota mining country sit around a coffee-shop table. They have come to discuss some slag from a nearby blast furnace which sits on the table but conversation veers to a brewing political earthquake that…

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 19 (Reuters) - South Africa’s troubled power utility Eskom said on Wednesday it would extend scheduled blackouts into Thursday as breakdowns continued to weigh on the system. The ‘stage 2’ power cuts, known locally as…