Tanzania aims to exploit its huge nickel deposit in Kabanga to boost employment and supply batteries for electric vehicles.

For decades it looked as though Simandou’s riches might never be dug up. Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian miner, first won ...

A research team including a University of Michigan scientist has discovered a new gold-sulfur complex that helps researchers understand how gold deposits are formed. Scientists have made a fascinating ...

A iron ore deposit so large that it has the potential to reshape global trade - a 55-billion-metric-ton treasure trove - has ...

Almonty Industries, a global producer of tungsten concentrate, has started commercial mining at the Sangdong mine in South ...

The proportion of deep-sourced helium and the temperature of the mineralising fluids appear to correspond to the size of the ...

Sophisticated new chemical analysis of gases trapped in rocks for millions of years has cast new light on the origin of the ...

Rio Tinto and its partners, including billionaire mining heiress Angela Bennett, will pump $525m into studies and exploration ...

Economic-grade deposits of copper are hard to find. The aluminium content of magmatic rocks at the surface may provide an indicator of ore deposits buried deep below. You have full access to this ...

Geologists have discovered that some magmas split into two separate liquids, one of which is very rich in iron. Their findings can help to discover new iron ore deposits for mining. Geologists have ...

Major iron ore projects are starting to expand outside of Western Australia, but do they have the potential to shake things ...