At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...
When easy options run out, industries get inventive. That’s where copper miners find themselves. Faced with vigorous demand, ...
Bioleaching unlocks revenue from low-grade ores, but the cost-effective copper extraction process is struggling to get off ...
Biotech company Endolith announced on Nov. 13 that it secured $13.5 million in Series A funding, with another $3 million expected in a follow-on close, to advance its biological system that draws ...
Amid rising demand, miners are turning to biotech firms to help them squeeze more metal out of aging mines. In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is ...
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