Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment while floating in weightlessness. In a carefully controlled experiment on the ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KETK) – The City of Longview has tabled a vote on a nearly $20 million investment for a proposed biomining facility. SPCA offers $5,000 reward after 10 puppies dumped in Van If passed ...

Microbes could be the future space miners, helping humans survive on long-term missions by ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - The Longview city council will consider a special permit for a new operation in biomining. Biomining is the process of using microorganisms to extract metals of economic value ...

History has viewed mining as a job that requires a lot of heavy machinery and physical labor. Pulling valuable material out of the ground has been necessary for human progress for thousands of years.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s teeming ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cemvita Factory (“Cemvita”) announced today the company has acquired Denver based Solfatara Laboratories (“Solfatara”) to advance and rapidly scale the biomining business.

New research produced at Montana State University examines a specific type of ancient microbe that can isolate and bioaccumulate nickel from its surroundings, using minerals as a nutrient source to ...

Kochi: The biomining operations have started at Valakuzhi, near Muvattupuzha, a site that has turned into a massive waste mound over the years. The Kerala Solid Waste Management Project has allocated ...

Chandigarh: The Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC) has directed the Ghaziabad-based firm handling biomining of ...