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UCSB’s Justin Wilson has developed a new approach to extract rare earth elements from waste. The goal is to make rare earth element recycling financially, logistically and environmentally attractive.
A 1949 letter, recently unearthed from the Bavarian Environment Agency's archive, has led to the rediscovery of Humboldtine samples. The letter indicated the mineral's presence in a coal mine near ...
Coconino County’s two major wildfires, one of which torched the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, continue to burn ...
The loss of the North Rim lodge and facilities due to predictably unpredictable winds in summertime is just the latest ...
NASA and theU.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have joined forces in a groundbreaking initiative to map critical minerals in the ...
The mineral was first discovered by German mineralogist August Breithaupt in 1821, in a weathered brown coal deposit in the ...
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