Earth's largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox, the United States Bullion Depository. In fact, they are hidden ...

Sir Keir Starmer has signed a long-term deal to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius under which Britain will pay more than £100mn a year to guarantee the future of a joint US-UK air ...

China is expanding its economic and political footprint in Latin America through billions of dollars in loans and cooperative ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

China's strategic discussions with the Pacific island nation on ocean minerals follow the Trump administration's bypassing of international law on seabed extraction.

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Commercial mining on the miles-deep Pacific Ocean floor came one step closer to reality with an announcement late Tuesday by ...

The world's sources of critical minerals are increasingly concentrated in just a few countries, most notably China, leaving the global economy vulnerable to supply cutoffs that could disrupt industry ...

The disappearance of glaciers is also creating opportunities for the multibillion-dollar mining industry. Like migrating salmon, mineral exploration companies are moving quickly into areas exposed by ...

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