Amazon’s data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that’s leaching metal from ores using ...

The copper, which is being produced in Arizona by Rio Tinto with bacteria and acid, will be used for data-center construction ...

At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...

At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...

In this video, we focus on recycling copper from old broken electric motors into usable materials. The process includes extracting copper wires, melting the copper, casting ingots, forging them to ...

Gunnison Copper's Johnson Camp mine east of Tucson, Ariz. (Mark Lipczynski for WSJ) Rio Tinto said its Nuton subsidiary, which uses bacteria and acid to extract copper from deposits that are otherwise ...

The United States has the resources necessary to compete with China for mastery over copper mining and refining.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a ...