The World's Largest Nickel Mining Companies

03-09-2022 • https://www.zerohedge.com, By Niccolo Conte

As the world transitions towards electric vehicles and cleaner energy sources, nickel has emerged as an essential metal for this green revolution.

Miners drilling for lithium find rich seams of copper and tin instead

12-13-2021 • arclein

Cornish Metals Inc has been exploring for tin at the United Downs site near Redruth and has now reported that it has found multiple "zones" of the minerals. It has identified at least five new zones and said they extend at least 750m down. T

Forget Silver, Nevada Is Now The Lithium State

10-10-2021 • https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden

Lithium is one of the most in-demand commodities in the world today.

THE Trump administration is reportedly putting together a legal blueprint for mining on the moon as part of the Artemis Accords, a new U.S.-sponsored international agreement.

Lunar Propellant Mining NASA NIAC Study

04-24-2020 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com, Brian Wang

The Lunar Polar Mining Outpost (LPMO) (see quad chart graphic) is a breakthrough mission architecture that promises to greatly reduce the cost of human exploration and industrialization of the Moon.

BMW Group Secures Lithium Supplies For Upcoming Next-Gen Plug-Ins

12-14-2019 • https://insideevs.com, Mark Kane

BMW Group, as promised, is securing supplies of key elements (lithium, cobalt) for its lithium-ion cell supplier directly from mining companies.

China, USA and the Geopolitics of Lithium

11-22-2019 • https://www.lewrockwell.com By F. William Engdahl

For several years since the global push to develop mass-scale Electric Vehicles, the element Lithium has come intofocus as a strategic metal.

Why do I mine BTC? - Roger Ver Interview

11-08-2019 • https://www.youtube.com, Bitcoin.com

Watch Roger Ver's interview created by Network Society Media on his vision about mining BTC and the future of Bitcoin Cash.

It Appears Tesla May Get Into The Mining Business

08-15-2019 • https://insideevs.com, By EVANNEX

Tesla is okay with venturing outside of its core business.

Are people really considering going to the moon… to mine?

08-05-2019 • https://www.naturalnews.com

(Natural News) Experts from the legal, mining, and space science sectors consider the moon to be a New World full of natural resources. They believe that the mineral wealth of Earth's "eighth continent" is there for the taking by anyone with mo

Lithium Production Is Currently Above Demand

07-30-2019 • https://insideevs.com, By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo

With that, prices will fall, but the long term perspective may be worrying.

Miners Eye The Moon For Trillion Dollar Payoff

03-03-2019 • https://oilprice.com

European scientists have announced plans to start mining the moon as early as 2025, though what they'll be extracting is neither gold nor diamonds, but waste-free nuclear energy thought to be worth trillions of dollars.

Equipment for Moon Mining Operations are Being Developed

12-02-2018 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang

The technology needed for mining water ice on the moon and converting it into fuel is pretty straight forward. Various groups are already making the actual needed hardware.

Scooptram ST7 Battery - Stop spending a fortune on air

11-23-2018 • https://www.youtube.com, Epiroc

The new Scooptram ST7 Battery from Epiroc has been developed based on a customer need, namely that the cost for ventilation in deep mining is really high. If you can reduce that cost by lowering emissions, than there is a lot of money to be saved. So

Asteroid mining for water with a few hundred spacecraft can be profitable

08-23-2018 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang

The maximum distance for asteroid mining 3 million miles (0.03 AU) with current technology. The corresponding delta-V is 437 meters per second. The near earth asteroids that are in range should contain more than one million liters of water.

U.S. black lung fund will need taxpayer bailout if coal tax falls: GAO

06-05-2018 • https://www.reuters.com, Valerie Volcovici

A federal fund to help U.S. coal miners disabled by black lung disease will require a multibillion-dollar taxpayer bailout if Congress does not extend or increase the tax on coal production that funds it, according to a government report on Monday.

Bitcoin Mining Facility Interferes With T-Mobile's LTE Network Verifying Payments

02-18-2018 • https://www.ccn.com

US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revealed in an official "notification of harmful interference" document that a bitcoin mining facility based in Brooklyn, New York interfered with T-Mobile's LTE network by sending harmful radio emissi

Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers

02-14-2018 • https://www.ccn.com

Privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero has declared war on ASIC manufacturers.

Colorado School of Space Mining

12-01-2017 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang

Since the 1990s, the Colorado School of Mines has been a leading institution for the study of space resources and in situ resource utilization (ISRU).

Tens of billions on exploration and mines will secure lithium supplies

11-26-2017 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang

Varying estimates of lithium deposits could provide lithium for anything from a further 100 million cars -- about 10 percent of the global auto fleet -- to 10 billion or more.

Fully automated mining and factories on Earth a precursor of automation for space

10-28-2017 • nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

Fully automated mining and factories and advanced robotics on the moon and asteroids could be leveraged for the exponential development of space. Here we review some of the developments of robotics for mining and factories on earth.

YOUR BROWSER COULD BE MINING CRYPTOCURRENCY FOR A STRANGER

10-20-2017 • Wired

THERE'S SOMETHING NEW to add to your fun mental list of invisible internet dangers. Joining classic favorites like adware and spyware comes a new, tricky threat called "cryptojacking," which secretly uses your laptop or mobile device to mine cr

Indigenous communities resist Chinese mining in Amazonian Ecuador

09-14-2017 • https://news.mongabay.com, by Max Nathanson

Last weekend, a tribunal held by indigenous communities in Gualaquiza, in the Amazon headwaters region of Ecuador, accused the nation's first large scale mining operation of major human and environmental abuses.

Coal on the rise in China, US, India after major 2016 drop

06-26-2017 • http://hosted2.ap.org

Mining data reviewed by The Associated Press show that production through May is up by at least 121 million tons, or 6 percent, for the three countries compared to the same period last year. The change is most dramatic in the U.S., where coal mining

Navajo Sues Government For $160 Million Over Last Year's Mining Waste Spill

12-08-2016 • http://www.trueactivist.com

Last year, the EPA spilled massive amounts of gold mining waste into the Animas river near the Navajo Nation reservation, turning the entire river yellow. Now, the Navajo is suing the government for on-going damages to their health and the enviro

Interview: Shawn Perger on the Global Economic Mess, Silver Mining and Chinchillas

09-05-2016 • http://www.thedailybell.com

Shawn Perger is based in Vancouver Canada and has worked in the international financial markets for 30 years with a primary focus on mining. For the last 15 years, he has worked with mainly silver companies in corporate finance and communications ca