Can you still mine Bitcoin on a PC in 2026? Explore the reality of ASIC dominance, rising mining difficulty and why home mining rarely pays.

Silver’s Friday tumble is proof that what goes up must come down—even in the financial markets. But with the precious metal suffering its worst day since 1980, the mining stocks may be worth buying.

A tiny mining town in western North Carolina was among those battered by Hurricane Helene — and the damage could have serious implications for the massive tech-industry supply chain that relies on it.

The House passed a bill to expedite the domestic mining of critical minerals, aiming to decrease the United States’s reliance on China. House lawmakers voted 224-195 on Wednesday to pass the Critical ...

Tether has unveiled MiningOS (MOS) as part of a broader push to reduce the industry’s reliance on proprietary, vendor-controlled software. Tether has open-sourced a new operating system for bitcoin ...

The U.S. House passed a resolution to repeal a 20-year ban on mining in Minnesota's Superior National Forest. Environmental groups oppose the measure, citing risks of toxic pollution to the nearby ...

In the first three quarters of 2025, Latin America attracted 74% of global mining merger and acquisition value, primarily driven by its vast reserves of critical minerals and lower operating costs ...

President Donald Trump’s desire to claim Greenland for the U.S. has thrust the island’s wealth of natural resources firmly into the spotlight. But while geopolitical chatter can make it sound as ...

Congressional Republicans moved closer Wednesday to lifting a 20-year ban on mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, pushing a resolution to end the moratorium through the House ...

The Trump administration is accelerating the permitting timeline for deep-seabed mining applications. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) unveiled revisions to the regulatory ...

Scientists will lower instruments to the seafloor to figure out how metallic nodules are generating oxygen in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, an unexpected phenomenon that has fuelled controversy ...

It’s a little-known fact that Columbia University, in Manhattan, was home to the first mining school in America—the School of Mines—founded in 1864. For the past three decades, the university’s ...