At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...

When easy options run out, industries get inventive. That’s where copper miners find themselves. Faced with vigorous demand, they are increasingly going after material from old sites, or ore once ...

When it comes time to fret about minerals critical to the energy transition, lithium, cobalt and nickel may get all the attention, but another metal is keeping plenty of analysts up at night. Though ...

TUCSON, Arizona--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto has successfully produced the first copper from the Johnson Camp mine in Arizona using its Nuton ® Technology, marking a pivotal step forward in the ...

Rio Tinto has achieved a milestone with the first copper produced from Gunnison Copper’s Johnson Camp mine in Arizona, US, using Nuton copper processing technology. The Nuton technology, the result of ...

Bioleaching unlocks revenue from low-grade ores, but the cost-effective copper extraction process is struggling to get off ...

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Ceibo wants to unlock vast new copper deposits for the energy transition—while making the mining industry more sustainable. Ceibo seeks to eliminate a major potential speed bump for the clean-energy ...