LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - Longview City Council unanimously voted to approve the beginning steps of the biomining process facility, located along East Loop 281 where precious metals and other elements ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - The Longview city council will consider a special permit for a new operation in biomining. Biomining is the process of using microorganisms to extract metals of economic value ...

Coimbatore: An RTI reply revealed that the biomining process at Vellalore dump yard was inadequate to clear the legacy waste and that chicken waste was still getting dumped there.The RTI petition was ...

For centuries, humans have mined materials to build the tools we use every day, from batteries and cell phones to airplanes and refrigerators. While the process of obtaining these important minerals ...

For centuries, humans have mined materials to build the tools we use every day, from batteries and cell phones to airplanes and refrigerators. While the process of obtaining these important minerals ...

History has viewed mining as a job that requires a lot of heavy machinery and physical labor. Pulling valuable material out of the ground has been necessary for human progress for thousands of years.

At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s teeming with invisible activity. Billions of microbes are hard at work ...

Recent experiments aboard the International Space Station have shown that some microbes can harvest valuable rare-earth elements from rocks, even when exposed to microgravity conditions. The ...