One untapped resource to meet the rising need for rare earth elements: recycling what's already been used.

Nick Michael thinks he has got a great idea. Collect ore and tailings from the slag piles scattered around Leadville, extract bits of silver and gold in a vat of chemicals and then store the waste in ...

BOLIDEN, Sweden, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The leading Swedish mining companies LKAB and Boliden have signed an agreement and will begin working together to investigate the possibility of ...

"Active and derelict coal and gold mines in South Africa discharge close to 400 million liters of acid mine drainage per day, and this demonstrates the viability of using this wastewater stream as a ...

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Nick Michael thinks he has got a great idea. Collect ore and tailings from the slag piles scattered around Leadville, extract bits of silver and gold in a vat of chemicals and then store the waste in ...

There's a familiar saying in farming: "If you eat, you're involved in agriculture." Similarly, in mining, the adage goes, "If it's not grown, it's mined." From the house that you live in to the car ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The clean energy transition will require lots of batteries—primarily to power ...

The Trump administration's Interior Department is moving to overturn a Biden administration legal opinion — stemming from two federal court rulings — that blocks mining companies from disposing of ...

The much bigger hindrance to EV recycling in the U.S. is simply that there aren’t enough old batteries to meet the demand for new ones. As that waiting game unfolds, recycling those often discarded as ...