She explains that while the microchips the company uses contain rare earth minerals ... makes them shine green, “it’s a tiny fraction compared to the amount of copper on the board,” she ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order on boosting domestic minerals production is intended to blast a path through the thicket of mine permitting in the United States.

As the world accelerates toward a clean energy future, the demand for critical minerals and strategic materials (strategic minerals) has surged.

While India produces some of the copper and graphite it uses at home, it fully imports several critical minerals used in green technologies including lithium, cobalt and nickel. The government has ...

The U.S. needs minerals for green tech. Will Western mines have enough water? As the U.S. plans new mines for copper, lithium and other metals to use in green technologies, mining projects in the ...

She explains that while the microchips the company uses contain rare earth minerals, around 90% of a finished circuit board is copper. Take LEDs, for example: while the rare earth element terbium ...