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Silver mining town's 1920s history being resurrected in East Pioneer Mountains

No church. No saloon. No single women, aside from the schoolmarm. One miner’s letter to his wife bemoaned the dearth of activities apart from digging ore or milling it. “There is nothing to do here but lay around and it sure gets tiresome,” wrote Harry Renz in 1922. Renz

Export ban sparks rush to process lithium in Zimbabwe

Export ban sparks rush to process lithium in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's ban on raw lithium exports is forcing Chinese miners to rethink their strategy, speeding up plans to process the metal locally instead of shipping it to China's vast rechargeable battery industry. The country is Africa's largest lithium producer and has one of the

Somaliland pins hopes on critical mineral gold rush

Somaliland pins hopes on critical mineral gold rush

Armed with nothing but a crowbar and shovel in the hills of Somaliland, Ahmed Ibrahim hacks away at rocks where he and fellow miners have already found tonnes of lithium. Officials in the breakaway territory of northern Somalia say there is an abundance of critical minerals in its ground, and

Three key takeaways from Silver Bow Mining's exploration plan near Walkerville

Silver Bow Mining, the successor to Butte Blackjack, hopes to conduct exploratory mining activities in lands near Walkerville that were mined in decades past. The company has applied to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for the license it needs to begin both exploratory surface drilling and underground mining to

Copper, a coveted metal boosting miners

Copper, a coveted metal boosting miners

BHP, Glencore and Teck Resources -- three mining giants whose annual results have revealed significantly increased profits thanks in large part to soaring copper prices. AFP explores the reasons behind the gains. - Profits boost - Australian resources group BHP saw net profit surge almost 28 percent to US$5.64 billion in

Extreme History Project pieces together the lost story of Lizzie Williams

Extreme History Project pieces together the lost story of Lizzie Williams

In Downtown Bozeman, where Altitude Gallery and Main Street Quilting Company now sit, there was once a restaurant owned by Lizzie Williams, the first recorded Black woman to own a business in Bozeman. Not a lot is known about Williams. She was born — likely into slavery — in Kentucky sometime around

Silver Bow Mining hopes to conduct mining exploration near Walkerville

Montana DEQ has released a draft environmental assessment for the project