Ukraine and the U.S. have signed a long-stalled minerals deal
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko sign a deal that will give the United States preferential access to…
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American DRC coup plotters are on their way back to U.S.
Left to right: Tyler Thompson Jr., Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun and Marcel Malanga upon their release from a Congolese prison. DRC Government handout./DRC Government handout hide…
Mineral-rich, war-torn DRC first stop for Trump’s new Africa czar
Massad Boulos, Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law, sits for a portrait at a hotel in New York on Sep 4, 2024. Jeenah Moon/The Washington Post via Getty…
The world has no rulebook for deep-sea mining. One company is pushing forward anyway
Negotiators are hammering out rules to govern mining on the ocean floor, where critical metals are found in deposits called polymetallic nodules. Here, ferromanganese nodules…