Earth AI is vertically integrating the search for critical minerals
A model is only as good as its data, and for Roman Teslyuk, the data wasn’t coming fast enough. “I hate delays,” Teslyuk, founder and CEO of Earth AI, told…
Durin digs up $3.4M to automate drills for critical minerals exploration
Finding new sources of critical minerals is a costly business. Worldwide, companies spent $12 to $13 billion on exploration in 2023. The upshot: mining is the definition of a hit-or-miss…
China has suspended exports of a wide range of rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for making semiconductors, robots, drones, cars, and more (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)
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Earth AI’s algorithms found critical minerals in places everyone else ignored
Last summer, mining startup KoBold made a splash when it said it had discovered in Zambia one of the world’s largest copper deposits in more than a decade. Now, another…
Trump administration might give a boost to deep-sea mining for critical minerals
Critical minerals are the new oil: everyone needs them, but not every country has them. That’s led some to search for them in some pretty wild places. And few places…