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Environment & sustainability

Seabed mining at a crossroads: The hidden battle over access and influence

Amer Hage Chahine and Ilya Epikhin from Arthur D. Little explore how geopolitical competition and technological disparity – not just environmental concerns – are driving the global stalemate over seabed mining regulation, as nations debate the future of ocean-floor resource extraction.

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The key to nature-positive mining

Dr Vere Ross Gillespie, Senior Aquatic Ecologist and Mining Sector Lead at NatureMetrics, details why habitat insights and species-level data are the key to nature-positive mining.

 

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Halliburton awarded lithium well project by GeoFrame Energy

Halliburton has been awarded a contract for GeoFrame Energy’s geothermal and direct lithium extraction (DLE) project, through which it will plan and design the first demonstration phase wells in the Smackover Formation in East Texas.

Mine smarter, waste less

Alaina Harkness and Batchimeg Ganbaatar outline how the road to real critical mineral independence will be paved by greater innovation in water and waste management.