The biggest stablecoin player wants to be a major bitcoin miner - and it's investing $500 million to compete

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Tether's chief technology officer, Paolo Ardoino
Tether's incoming CEO, Paolo Ardoino.

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How limestone kilns are slowly killing entire families in Pakistan

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Thousands of workers in southern Pakistan spend their lives mining and cooking limestone. The process releases plumes of toxic smoke, polluting the environment and poisoning workers.

Fountains of diamonds erupt from the ground when continents break up, say scientists — and it could help uncover new deposits

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A model holds a rare blue diamond in Geneva on November 3, 2022.

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Rare metals found on seabeds could be key to green technology, but mining them could wreak ecological havoc on the ocean floor

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The Metals Company CEO, Gerard Barron, stands in front of a large mound of polymetallic. nodules
The Metals Company CEO, Gerard Barron, stands in front of a large mound of polymetallic nodules.

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International Negotiators Just Missed a Deadline to Regulate Deep-Sea Mining. Now What?

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This month, a small group of diplomats is meeting to hash out a plan that could affect the future of nearly half of Earth’s surface—including regions containing metals that are vital for the energ

Startups are zeroing in on cleaner ways to mine the lithium needed for electric vehicles

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The Great Transition Series: An employee holds processed lithium next to a rechargeable battery surrounded by sustainability graphic elements

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Russian gold is now flooding the UAE, Turkey and Hong Kong after facing sanctions in the West

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Vladimir Putin.

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This is what an underground copper miner's 18-hour day looks like, from loading explosives into a truck to 'hunting' for dinosaurs

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Underground miner Cory Rockwell before (left) and after his shift at Nevada Copper.

Courtesy of Cory Rockwell

I'm an underground miner making as much as $160,000 a year without a college degree. The job saved my life.

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Cory Rockwell is an underground copper miner in rural Nevada. This is what his job is like.

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Tin mining is big business in Indonesia. Here's why miners risk their lives for $13 a day.

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Floating tin mines in the Indonesian Sea
Makeshift pontoons gather in the Indonesia Sea to form an illegal tin mine.

Ibnu Hadi Rachmat

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