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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 ...

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Australia plans to buy and stockpile key minerals from domestic producers to strengthen defence and technology supply chains and reduce reliance on China. The government will initially target ...

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