Mining

Investors must engage strategically across the whole mining sector to ensure it is able to play the role society demands of it.

A mining boom in mountainous Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, home to half the world’s lithium reserves, could drain vital ecosystems and deprive Indigenous communities of water.

Advances in material sciences are improving the recovery of lithium.

Diving into risk? The ocean depths are rich with metals and minerals critical for the clean economy transition.

Minerals supply chains often obscure the impacts of mining, exposing companies to operational, financial and legal risks.

New report calls for revamped safety standards as companies race to meet demand for clean energy minerals.

Deep-sea minerals are not currently commercially available, and whether they have a role in future supply chains is the subject of heated debate.

Digging in: New initiatives aimed at “mining” materials from products already in circulation and out of the waste streams help cut extraction of natural resources.

Mining companies may in future have to report on the impact of individual operations as part of more stringent ESG data reporting.

Mining firms are using the green energy movement as an excuse to keep extracting rare earth minerals on public land for next to nothing.