Commodity exporting and economic development
Steel manufacturing and Carbon Emissions, Global Warming
Moon base - Water and resources on the Moon
Commodities - Hedge Funds, Short Selling, Financial Trading
Copper, Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel: Commodities and Batteries for Electric Cars, Homes and More
Mining Asteroids in outer space
a collection of articles about volcanoes
Concrete and Cement - Construction, Building and Materials
Fracking, shale - oil, gas and energy
a collection of articles and research about manufactured diamonds
a collection of articles and resources looking at Mining
Robots for Outer Space, and Deep-Sea Mining
But it’s proving ethically trickier than she expected | United States (2024)
Why ExxonMobil is paying $60bn for Pioneer. Consolidation will transform America’s fragmented shale industry | Business (2023)
One of Europe’s dirtiest industries has ambitious plans to go green | Business (2023)
Researchers have discovered ancient Roman concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated self-healing. Applying this knowledge toward modern c... (2023)
The deposit could power 400,000 clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, which for a mine migh... (2021)
But they need to be designed to make recycling them easier | Science & technology Scrapyards of tomorrow - Old electric cars are a raw material ... (2021)
Reinforced concrete is everywhere. But unlike plain concrete, which can last for centuries, reinforced concrete can deteriorate in decades as the r... (2021)
The world's biggest jeweller says it will no longer use mined diamonds in a bid to become more sustainable. (2021)
Lab device splits water efficiently in Martian conditions. (2020)
New research provides the best evidence to date of water on the Moon's sunlit surface and suggests this valuable resource is scattered widely acros... (2020)
It could destroy norovirus, MRSA, virulent strains of E. coli, and coronaviruses—including the novel strain currently causing the COVID-19 pandemic. (2020)
It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable. "... Today, many of the largest mineral corporations in the world have launched underwate... (2020)
The Mekong river is being damaged by sand extraction, adding to calls for limits on sand usage. (2019)
Chile is outpacing Bolivia in extracting the important metal. (2019)
These not-so-rare but still increasingly important members of the periodic table are causing supply chain quandaries for global powers including Ch... (2019)
Billions of years ago when the world was still young, treasure began forming deep underground. As the edges of Earth’s tectonic plates plunged down... (2019)
For science, profit, and pride, China, the U.S., and private companies are hunting for resources on the lunar surface, Rivka Galchen writes. (2019)
The Romans used concrete in everything from bath houses to the Colosseum. Our modern concrete structures will never last as long (2019)
After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on the planet. But its benefits mask enormous dangers to the planet, to human health – and ... (2019)
THE ONLY thing that can accelerate as fast as an electric car is the price of the most expensive metal in its batteries. Once a niche input used to... (2018)
What a time to own the world’s most valuable cobalt mine, and to have to fight to keep it. (2018)
TOWNSVILLE, A COASTAL city of 200,000 in the state of Queensland, owes its existence to commodities. The local agent for a Sydney merchant named Ro... (2018)
IT EMERGED on July 2nd that Hollywood may make “The King of Oil”, a film about Marc Rich, an American-Swiss commodities trader who became a fabulou... (2018)
The mining and commodities giant posted bumper first-half earnings today—with EBITDA up 23% over (2018)
Reserves of cobalt and nickel used in electric-vehicle cells will not meet future demand. Refocus research to find new electrodes based on common e... (2018)
As worldwide development rises for electric vehicle batteries and wind turbines, the demand for metals from the bottom of the sea has spiked... (2018)
De Beers, the global diamond giant, has announced Tuesday it is launching a new line of jewelry featuring lab-grown diamonds... (2018)
The Moon is fair game to private companies as far as NASA is concerned... (2013)
Mining the ocean floor is about to go mainstream "PATANIA ONE sits in a large shed on the outskirts of Antwerp. Green and cuboid, with an interi... (2018)
“Once again it is threatening to cause trouble, this time in the growing market for batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), each of which uses about... (2018)
Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)
Concrete = cement + sand + gravel. Cement is the most important man-made material on Earth. Offset your carbon footprint on … (2023)
Zimbabwe has been mining lithium for 60 years and the government estimates that its Chinese-owned Bikita mine, which is located 300 km south of the... (2023)
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As time passes, the two rocks Hew and Kew watch the world around them change rapidly. But there is nothing really that can disturb their calm... Su... (2020)
Every volcanic eruption and earthquakes are a reminder that Earth is very much alive and in motion... (2020)