The federal government said it would hold hearings next month on controversial applications to mine the ocean floor.

GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. (AP) — Graphite mines in the United States largely closed down seven decades ago. Mining the ubiquitous ...

Bitcoin mining may look hardware-heavy and energy-hungry, but at its core, it’s probability-driven. Everything else follows ...

Dahn C. Vo, founder of the now-defunct VBit Technologies Corp. based in South Philly, was accused by the SEC of ...

Historically, lithium has been produced using two approaches: hard rock mining of spodumene deposits, as seen at the ...

Mining is the process of adding and validating transaction records on the Bitcoin public blockchain ledger while securing uptime for the network. This is how the network persists without relying on ...

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Bitcoin mining involves solving complex mathematical puzzles, validating transactions and securing the network. Miners compete to find the correct hash, adding new blocks to the blockchain and earning ...

In June, 2014, a man began digging into the soft red earth in the back yard of his house, on the outskirts of Kolwezi, a city in the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the man later told ...

Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in economics and personal finance and over twenty years of experience in the classroom. d3sign / Getty Images A blockchain is a secure ...

Process chemistry involves the development and optimization of production processes for chemical compounds, and the scaling up of laboratory reactions, particularly in the pharmaceutical sector. The ...