In the middle of a trade war, Congo is trying to woo Trump’s White House without risking critical investment from Beijing.

"Everybody's been worried about China's leverage, but now they've actually shown that they'll cut off critical minerals." ...

China's CMOC Group, the world's top cobalt mining company, called on Democratic Republic of Congo last week to lift a ban on ...

China’s rise to dominance in electric vehicles, much like Japan’s earlier challenge to U.S. automakers, has prompted an ...

The proposed mining area for the commercial recovery, TMC USA-A_2, spans more than 25,160km² ... 12.8mt of copper, 2mt of cobalt and 345mt of manganese. The NOAA will review TMC USA's applications, ...

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the deep sea.

Impossible Metals earlier this month asked the administration to launch a commercial auction for access to deposits of nickel, cobalt ... on 10 mining projects across the United States and ...

The thing that people have missed is that there is zero chance that this will not happen,” Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals ...

Scholarships and stipends could help build interest in the field to accompany the increasing demand for talent to develop strategic materials mining in the United States and globally in projects ...

said seabed mining was needed to get the United States out from under the “supply chain yoke” of China, which currently processes a majority of the world’s cobalt, much of its nickel and ...