Faster way to make mineral to remove carbon dioxide from atmosphere
Scientists have developed an accelerated way to produce magnesite, a mineral which can capture the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from...
Copper price falls as China investment grows at slowest pace on record
Source: Bloomberg Copper continued to decline on Tuesday to touch its lowest in 13 months after disappointing economic numbers from...
Columbus Gold to buy 70% stake in Maripa project from IAMGOLD
Canadian gold exploration and development company Columbus Gold (TSX:CGT) plans to buy up to a 70% interest in IAMGOLD’s (TSX:IMG)...
China's Ganfeng grabs SQM's stake in Argentinean lithium project
China’s Ganfeng Lithium, one of the world’s top producers of the battery metal, has bought Chilean producer SQM’s 50% stake...
Lithium boom unlikely to disrupt potash market — analyst
While lithium and potash are often found in the same deposits and mined together, analysts believe the increasing number of...
About 1,500 jobs to go at Gold Fields’ South Deep as part of restructuring
South African miner Gold Fields (NYSE, JSE:GFI) plans to cut about 1,560 employees and contractors at its massive South Deep mine,...
Melt-rate of West Antarctic Ice Sheet highly sensitive to changes in ocean temperatures
Melting of ice shelves in West Antarctica speeds up and slows down in response to changes in deep ocean temperature,...
Scientists trace atmospheric rise in CO2 during deglaciation to deep Pacific Ocean
How carbon made it out of the ocean and into the atmosphere has remained one of the most important mysteries...
Historic space weather could clarify what's next
Scientists have discovered an underlying repeatable pattern in how space weather activity changes with the solar cycle - having analysed...
Back to the future of climate change
Researchers are looking to the geologic past to make future projections about climate change. Their research focuses on the ancient...