Powering bitcoin mining machines with literal garbage is an emerging trend within the mining sector as a crop of new companies focus on harnessing this abundant and otherwise wasted energy resource.

A “political agreement” set to be reached tomorrow by EU Environment Ministers on waste from mining and quarrying could still leave European rivers and lakes vulnerable to serious damage. Brussels, ...

The U.S. may be able to meet its entire need for some critical minerals through mine waste alone.

New research shows that magnesium and other metals in mine waste can be solubilized and recovered thanks to acid-producing bacteria. Researcher Nathan van Wyk believes that the method has great ...

Researchers have developed a new mining technique which uses microbes to recover metals and store carbon in the waste produced by mining. Adopting this technique of reusing mining waste, called ...

Mining tailings are the waste byproduct of mining, consisting of ground rock, water, and processing chemicals that remain ...

The Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council (“ITRC”) has issued a guidance document titled: Reuse of Solid Mining Waste (“Guidance”). The stated objective of the Guidance is to help determine ...

Pollution and waste, climate change and biodiversity loss are creating a triple planetary crisis. In response, UN Environment Program executive director Inger Andersen has called for waste to be ...

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HOUGHTON COUNTY, MICH. -- Mining for copper and other materials has played a large role in the Keweenaw Peninsula’s rich history. Unfortunately, there’s been a dark side to its legacy: The waste left ...

One of the quickest opportunities to strengthen our defence sovereignty lies in Canada’s historic mining tailings,” Mykytczuk ...