As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

Knowing about the different types of iron ore is useful for investors interested in the space. Iron ... hematite ore is important for many mining companies. Hematite ore is found throughout ...

The industry’s “risk-taking ability” has fallen, says one mining boss. Production of metal ore declined by about 3% a year in 2019-24; that of critical minerals such as copper and nickel ...

“Judge” Haussermann floated 200,000 shares of new stock, borrowed $75,000 from the bank, built a new mill and started mining ore. In two years he paid off the bank’s loan to Bengue ...

A robot works in a simulated environment for space mining at a lab of China University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province. Provided to China Daily The prospect of space mining ...

"Mining – separating ore from dirt – is relatively straightforward ... "Reproducing that in space is going to be much harder. At this stage it's hard to say whether [established] techniques ...