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Staggering Quantities of Valuable Metals Are Winding Up in the ...
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Offshore Wind Turbines Need Rare Earth Metals. Will There Be ...
This month, a small group of diplomats is meeting to hash out a plan that could affect the future of nearly half of Earth’s surface—including regions containing metals that are vital for the energy transition, like nickel, copper, cobalt, and manganese...
International Negotiators Just Missed a Deadline to Regulate Deep-Sea Mining. ...
In arid southeastern California, just across the border from Nevada, sits the only large-scale rare-earth element mine in the Western Hemisphere. Here at Mountain Pass, rocks are dug out of a 600-foot pit in the ground, crushed, and liquified into a co...