The future of copper mining lies in urban mining. AI-driven scrap sorting leads the way. Cities become key material sources. Efficient recycling networks emerge. Waste shrinks. Recovery rates climb.

A Canadian mining company has been cleared to begin exploratory drilling for copper and gold in northern Wisconsin.

The future of the Boundary Waters continues to be a hot topic of debate among Minnesota legislators, as a new bill that would ...

Freeport-McMoRan, Rio Tinto and BHP are among the miners testing sulfide leaching as tariff threats send copper prices ...

Minn., has introduced a bill to ban copper-nickel mining on nearly a quarter-million acres of federal land in the same ...

A Canadian mining company has been cleared to begin exploratory drilling for copper and gold in northern Wisconsin.

There have been no active sulfide mines in Wisconsin for decades. But a mining moratorium was repealed by Governor Scott ...

faster and greener than traditional mining. The process, known as sulfide leaching, has been known to copper miners for decades, but the recent push to advance it comes as electrification and ...

In recent years, factors such as rapid urbanization in the Global South and the energy transition have driven a surge in ...

Smith emphasizes that her legislation would not ban or restrict existing or potential mining projects outside the Rainy River watershed.