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Trillion dollars' worth of platinum waiting to be mined on the moon

Mining craters on the moon could be more practical than extracting precious metals from asteroids, but it might also introduce new legal difficulties

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A rich new history of our obsession with extracting Earth's resources

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peridot crystals with a few dark olivine crystal

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How captured carbon dioxide could help mine carbon-negative nickel

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2HCNTB2 Arctic sea with Arctic remnant ice through the Fram Strait near Svalbard

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Mining the Arctic's precious resources is a fool's errand

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Will climate change lead to an industrial boom in the Arctic?

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gold mining area in Peru's southeastern Amazon region

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Trees capture toxic fingerprint of gold mining in the Amazon

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How a start-up plans to mine the moon for a rare form of helium

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The town of Colonnata (Italy), which lies beneath marble quarries in the Apuan Alps. Colonnata is famous for the lard produced there, and for being inhabited by marble quarrymen.

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Incredible images tell the tale of the world’s most prized marble

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Electric fields could mine rare earth metals with less harm

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Will miners finally start harvesting metals from the seabed in 2025?

The international community seems no closer to an agreement on a code for deep-sea mining in international waters and the impasse may lead to countries acting unilaterally

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The dilemma of mining more metals so we can ditch fossil fuels

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Dramatic images show the dark side of cobalt mining boom

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Shock discovery reveals deep sea nodules are a source of oxygen

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Can seaweed provide the minerals we need for clean energy?

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