Instead of continuing to dig tunnels or pits, some scientists are looking to a promising yet challenging source of minerals: ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals ...

The Metals Company said it would apply for permits under a 1980 U.S. law, after President Trump signed an executive order calling for an increase in U.S. mineral production.

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction ...

The fishing community in Kollam fears that offshore mining could damage or even destroy the rocky reefs along the coast that ...

Canadian miner The Metals Company said on Thursday it had formally initiated a process under the U.S. Department of Commerce to apply for exploration licenses and permits to extract minerals from the ...

A lithium gold rush is erupting beneath California's Salton Sea, where a $540 billion discovery could supercharge U.S. battery independence.

An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...