Away from the headlines around the minerals deal with Ukraine, the United States has pursued a potentially even more ...

The United States has pursued a potentially even more significant critical metals deal in the Great Lakes region of Africa.

Potential peace deal between Congo, Rwanda, and M23 rebels could impact mineral-rich regions and global supply chains.

Of the sites surveyed, 85% were mining gold and most of the rest digging for the 3T minerals - tin, tungsten and tantalum, the latter occurring as coltan ore. The IPIS estimates that 61% of miners ...

By David Lewis, Giulia Paravicini and Sonia Rolley GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -The M23 insurgents who routed Congo’s army to take control of the eastern part of one of Africa’s most ...

Urban Ore in Berkeley isn’t just another stop on California’s secondhand circuit; it’s a legendary treasure hunting ground where the environmentally conscious and the bargain-obsessed converge in ...

Farming communities began mining large tin ore deposits there around 4,200 years ago, say archaeometallurgist Alan Williams of Durham University in England and his colleagues. That metallic ...

A new study has revealed that 3,300 years ago, tin mined in south-west Britain was a key resource for major Bronze Age ...

Small farming communities across Cornwall and Devon would have dug, washed, crushed and smelted the abundant tin ore from the alluvial deposits in the region. The heavy sand to gravel-sized tin ore is ...