Copper cannot be mined quickly enough to keep up with current U.S. policy guidelines to transition the country's electricity and vehicle infrastructure to renewable energy, according to a new study.

New technologies could refine the copper the world needs — without the dirty smelting Copper will play a central role in the energy transition. These startups are working on a cleaner way to ...

Mining isn’t known for innovation. For more than a century, we’ve extracted copper using the same process: dig, crush, grind, leach, repeat. Meanwhile, demand has exploded, fueled by EVs, AI ...

Amid growing copper demand globally, driven by the energy transition, mining companies face significant pressures to increase output amid declining copper head grades. To meet this challenge ...

Permitting delays and associated litigation have become a serious obstacle to the energy transition, write Morgan Bazilian, Greg Clough, and Simon Lomax in a guest commentary.