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The House passed a bill to expedite the domestic mining of critical minerals, aiming to decrease the United States’s reliance on China. House lawmakers voted 224-195 on Wednesday to pass the Critical ...

Tether has unveiled MiningOS (MOS) as part of a broader push to reduce the industry’s reliance on proprietary, vendor-controlled software. Tether has open-sourced a new operating system for bitcoin ...

Tether has released an open-source operating system for bitcoin mining, pitching it as a way to make running mining infrastructure simpler while reducing reliance on closed, vendor-controlled software ...

It is not realistic to expect similar gains also in 2026, as the gold, silver, and copper prices will most probably ease the pace of growth (and possibly even give up a portion of the 2025 gains), ...

ANTANANARIVO, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Madagascar has lifted a 16-year moratorium on new mining permits for most minerals, the government said late on Thursday, but the suspension on gold permits will ...

JOHANNESBURG—For years, hundreds of illegal miners known locally as zama zamas prospected for gold on this patch of land on the outskirts of the city with hammers and chisels in hand-dug tunnels. Now, ...

Before Oregon was known for timber, it was known for gold. That’s the underlying message of the new book “Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War into the Progressive Era.” Its author, ...

The U.S. House passed a resolution to repeal a 20-year ban on mining in Minnesota's Superior National Forest. Environmental groups oppose the measure, citing risks of toxic pollution to the nearby ...

In the first three quarters of 2025, Latin America attracted 74% of global mining merger and acquisition value, primarily driven by its vast reserves of critical minerals and lower operating costs ...

President Donald Trump’s desire to claim Greenland for the U.S. has thrust the island’s wealth of natural resources firmly into the spotlight. But while geopolitical chatter can make it sound as ...

Scientists will lower instruments to the seafloor to figure out how metallic nodules are generating oxygen in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, an unexpected phenomenon that has fuelled controversy ...