March 2026

The Joint Mining Plan between Codelco’s Andina Division and Anglo American’s Los Bronces operation has received the necessary free competition authorisations for its implementation, as required by the agreement signed in…

They cut off his finger to prove they were serious. The victim was a cryptocurrency entrepreneur. The ransom demand was over $10 million. And the man allegedly behind Europe’s worst crypto kidnapping just ran out of places to hide.…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. We’re supposed to be a nation of laws, built on a Constitution that gives Congress the power of the purse. But when an agency decides to intentionally wipe…

At the Zhundong Open-Pit Coal Mine in northwest China, 120 Tonly TLE138 battery-electric 90 t payload wide body mining trucks have been deployed with EACON’s autonomous haulage system, ORCASTRA®, and are now operating as part of one of the…

A sitting US congressman has banned his entire staff from trading on prediction markets, making him one of the first members of Congress to formalize such a prohibition. Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA) issued the office-wide policy…

In the presentation for its full year 2025 results, Antofagasta PLC said that innovation increases its growth optionality, with multiple opportunities to increase efficiencies and operating scale, as mining operations require increasingly…

Larry Fink just put a number on his Bitcoin price bet. The BlackRock CEO, who once called crypto a money laundering tool, is now projecting $500 million in annual revenue from digital assets by 2030. That is not a footnote. That is a line…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. So far this year, Leapmotor is the 14th best selling EV producer in 13 European countries, according to data collated by EU-EVs.com. With 11,697 sales, the…

Atlantic Nickel and Appian Capital Advisory Ltd have marked the start of preliminary works for the underground transition at the Santa Rita mine in Bahia, Brazil. The milestone was marked with an inaugural blast to open the first access…

Google just crossed a line that scientists spent decades arguing was theoretically possible but practically out of reach. On February 9, 2026, Google’s quantum team demonstrated below-threshold quantum error correction, meaning that…