Maintaining a variety of programs during a slow period for the U.S. mining industry has paid off with a nearly $1 million contract for the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. Mines has one of ...

Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment while floating in weightlessness. In a carefully controlled experiment on the ...

The ability to capture carbon dioxide is one of the notable traits of a small but effective microbe that can also help extract rare earth and other essential elements used in manufacturing products ...