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ADELAIDE, Australia—KoBold Metals, a startup backed by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures that aims to use artificial intelligence to find metals needed…

CALIPATRIA, Calif.—In the U.S. hunt for lithium, an essential component of the batteries that power electric vehicles and cellphones, one big untapped source might be bubbling under a giant…

SYDNEY—When one Rio Tinto RIO -2.38% PLC worker reported she had been sexually harassed by a colleague, a manager told her it had probably…

Snarled supply chains are giving new impetus to Rio Tinto RIO 0.52% PLC’s efforts to produce minerals essential for modern technologies,…

Industrial production in the U.S. declined in September as supply-chain disruptions in the auto industry and lingering effects of Hurricane Ida weighed on…

Manufacturers are stacking up unfinished goods on factory floors and parking incomplete vehicles in airport parking lots while waiting for missing parts, made scarce by…

A recent shipment of 24 metric tons of Swedish steel could mark the beginning of what the steel industry hopes is a new era: the cleanup of one of the world’s dirtiest industries.…

Canada’s Centerra Gold Inc. invested more than $3 billion over nearly three decades to turn a remote gold prospect in Kyrgyzstan into a prosperous gold mine. Then in May, the…

Miners are printing money from a business many are trying to exit: digging up thermal coal. Prices for thermal coal, the variety burned to generate electricity, have shot…

The union representing workers at Chile’s La Escondida copper mine said its members voted to reject the most recent contract offer from the mine’s owner and go on strike,…