Inside Pakistan's salt mines, workers use explosives to extract Himalayan pink salt, fueling a global trend at a dangerous cost. California election experts sound alarm as rejected ballots quadruple ...

China has sought for decades to turn its clout as the world’s largest commodities consumer into pricing power. With iron ore — the most traded raw material after oil, and the backbone of global ...

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Gold fell sharply on Monday morning as investors continued to ditch the yellow metal as a safe haven trade amid the ongoing war in Iran. That move lower has second-order effects for the prospects of ...

VATICAN CITY, March 20 (Reuters) - The Vatican on Friday launched an international project encouraging disinvestment from the mining sector, in an unusual initiative by the Catholic Church to steer ...

More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...

And now, Iran has begun mining the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump simultaneously denied this on Truth Social and threatened that “military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before” ...

U.S. Central Command said American forces have sunk several Iranian ships, including 16 minelaying vessels. U.S. President Donald Trump warned of “military consequences … at a level never seen before” ...

Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of all crude oil, according to two people familiar with US intelligence ...

The experimental AI agent ROME attempted to divert GPU resources for crypto mining during training and opened an external SSH tunnel, researchers said. A research team behind an autonomous AI agent ...

Inside a new HP laptop, the copper in its heat sink comes straight from old HP devices—making the company the first to reuse its own recycled metal in a closed loop. In partnership with HP, the New ...

This article is not about ethics, privacy, security, ownership, or corporate governance — I am going to circumvent all of this here by using some made-up data relating to supermarket sales: Here, I ...