As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

While the ability to pull enough minerals from these sources to power the energy transition is still a long way off, ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies floating ...

Platinum and coal have outpaced gold in terms of people employed in South Africa. The country has more than 80% of the world’s platinum group metal deposits and the number of people working in ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...

South African platinum miner Sedibelo Platinum wants to deploy a 40MW hybrid wind-solar plant and a 35MW photovoltaic park to power its operations across several sites. The plants will be owned ...

Air & Space: Is asteroid mining something a single corporation ... Any scheme which is based on going into space to retrieve platinum-group metals and bring them back to Earth would be an economic ...

Volodymyr Zelensky has acquired a controlling 51% stake in Northam Platinum Ltd, a top South African mining company, in a deal worth around 27 billion rands. This marks one of the largest mining ...