Traditional methods of rare earth mining are resource-intensive and pose significant environmental damage. Technology ...

Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...

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Greenland’s harsh environment, lack of key infrastructure and difficult geology have prevented anyone from building a mine to ...

As the demand for rare earth elements increases world-wide, so too do the mining activities associated with rare earth element extraction. Rare earth elements are listed as 15 elements on the periodic ...

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The world's clean energy future relies on ancient elements still in the ground. On Point's special series 'Elements of energy: Mining for a green future,' explores the environmental and human cost of ...

Responsible mining is no longer just about doing the right thing. As demand for critical minerals grows, it has become ...

Could seaweed be a key in sourcing more precious and rare-earth elements? Some scientists seem to think so. Seaweed, they say, contains several minerals that could be used in the manufacturing of a ...

Can the rest of the world challenge Beijing’s dominance of high-performance magnets by developing new mining projects?