The Earth is full of riches. Once people discovered the importance of metals, they quickly found out where to get them from. The first mined metal may have been copper. When mixed with tin, this ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global,‎ Laura Spinney, published by ‎William Collins.

The tin market is once again bubbling on supply chain trouble, this time in Indonesia, where the government has launched a ...

Indonesia's Attorney General has confiscated 42,000 tons of tin sands from miners linked to a corruption case at state tin mining firm PT Timah, state media Antara reported.

Earlier this summer, representatives from the United States and China sat down to negotiate an off-ramp to the ongoing trade ...

“Microbes are the world’s oldest miners,” says Liz Dennett, founder and CEO of the start-up Endolith Mining, based near ...

The story begins at Kvemo Bolnisi, a smelting workshop perched on a hillside in the Caucasus. Soviet archaeologists first dug ...

The team behind plans to reopen a tin mine have said they are optimistic they will begin commercial extraction by mid-2028.

Cadets of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) preparing for military drills at the group’s headquarters in Laiza, Kachin State ...

Ancient copper smelters in Georgia may have accidentally paved the way for the Iron Age, providing new insights into human ...

A 3,000-year-old metal workshop in southern Georgia may hold the key to one of the most important turning points in human ...

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