One feature of compounds made with transition metals is their intense colour. There are many examples in nature, including gemstones and paint pigments. Even the colour of blood comes from the protein ...

The colors of rubies and emeralds are so striking that they define shades of red and green—ruby red and emerald green. But ...

A new report from coloured gemstones miner Gemfields on the emerald, ruby and sapphire markets “… serves as a reminder of how ...

Scientists introduced atomic defects in spinel using cerium, and voilà! The gemstone became a solid qubit system.

The critical minerals needed for the energy transition are often more niche than the commodities that drove the real estate boom, and lower value in terms of market size. And the trade war between ...

Javier Blas is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy and commodities. He is coauthor of “The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources.” ...

The NDP wants to stop critical mineral exports to the United States in response to Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs on Canada, party leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday. “I’m calling on all ...

A 2023 survey showed that 25 of 34 minerals deemed “critical raw materials” by the European Commission were found in Greenland. The extraction of oil and natural gas is banned in Greenland for ...

Former family vlogger Ruby Franke might have shared snippets of her home life online, but viewers had no idea what was really going on behind closed doors for years. Police swooped on the Utah ...

"This constitutes the most important contamination of supply chains with ineligible minerals recorded in the Great Lakes region over the last decade," they said in their report, released Wednesday.

As the world seeks to transition to a renewable energy economy and further develop the digital economy, skyrocketing demand for critical minerals is heightening environmental, social, and governance ...