Articles about mining

Prototype excavator on a rocky test range

Interlune digs into the development of an excavator for helium-3 and construction projects on the moon

Seattle startup takes a wider view of what it can do for NASA’s Artemis moon program in the years ahead. Read More

Illustration: Interlune harvester on the moon

Interlune brings in fresh funding to keep its mission to mine the moon moving forward

Seattle-based Interlune is raising additional investment to support its campaign to identify and extract resources on the moon that can… Read More

AIM raises $50M to retrofit bulldozers and excavators to operate autonomously

AIM Intelligent Machines (AIM), a Seattle-area startup that retrofits heavy earthmoving machinery to operate autonomously, raised $50 million in new… Read More

First Mode files notice to lay off 65 workers at clean-tech facilities in Washington state

Seattle-based First Mode is reporting that 65 of its workers in Washington state are being laid off in a move… Read More

Mining truck at First Mode's Centralia proving ground

Clean-tech pioneer First Mode is giving its employees advance warning about layoffs

First Mode, a Seattle-based company that’s concentrating on reducing carbon emissions in mining and other heavy industries, has alerted its… Read More

Interlune comes out of stealth with its plan to harvest helium-3 and more on the moon

Seattle-based Interlune officially lifted the curtain today on its plans to build a robotic harvester that could extract helium-3 from… Read More

First Mode opens a clean-tech factory that capitalizes on some extra high-tech twists

There’s not much that’s bolted down to the floor of the 40,000-square-foot factory in Seattle’s SoDo district where First Mode… Read More

First Mode diesel-electric hybrid vehicle undergoing test drive

First Mode reduces workforce as it revises its vision for lower-emission heavy trucks

Editor’s note: This story and GeekWire’s Layoff Tracker were updated to reflect that 42 U.S.-based employees were laid off. Seattle-based… Read More

Washington state chips in $250K for First Mode’s zero-emission proving grounds

First Mode, the clean-energy company that was recently transformed from a Seattle startup into an Anglo American subsidiary, is getting… Read More

First Mode, Anglo American wrap up $1.5B transaction for zero-emission mining

Seattle-based First Mode and Anglo American have closed a complicated $1.5 billion transaction that will remake First Mode as a… Read More

Anglo American follows through on $200M combination agreement with First Mode

Seattle-based First Mode and the Anglo American mining company have signed a binding agreement to combine First Mode with Anglo… Read More

First Mode will develop zero-emission trucks at proving grounds south of Seattle

First Mode is establishing a proving grounds between Seattle and Portland to test and optimize giant zero-emission hauling trucks and… Read More

First Mode agrees to combine with Anglo American’s zero-emission truck business

First Mode, a Seattle-based engineering company, says it’s agreed to a business combination with the zero-emission truck development effort led… Read More

Mammoth zero-emission mining truck makes its debut in South Africa, powered by First Mode

After years of development, the world’s largest zero-emission vehicle was unveiled today at a South African platinum mine, with a… Read More

First Mode brings in $8.5M investment as part of Anglo American mining development deal

Seattle-based First Mode says it’s partnering with the global mining company Anglo American in a multi-year joint development deal that… Read More

First Mode building hydrogen fuel cell to power one of the biggest zero-emission vehicles on Earth

Seattle engineering company First Mode is building a hydrogen fuel cell generator capable of lighting up Lumen Field. But the… Read More

HyperSciences pushes ahead to next stage of blaster technology (and fundraising)

HyperSciences has raised more than $9 million for its hypersonic blaster technology using an unusual crowdfunding model, but now it’s… Read More

First Mode forges $13.5M agreement with Anglo American to develop mining tech

First Mode, a Seattle engineering firm founded by veterans of the Planetary Resources asteroid mining venture, says it’ll be working… Read More

Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner emerges at helm of secretive blockchain startup co-founded by former Myspace CTO

Former Microsoft COO Kevin Turner has taken the helm of Core Scientific, a stealthy new blockchain and artificial intelligence startup… Read More