Electro Kinetic Mining of Rare Earths
By Ian Page – 2022.12.07 Wang, G., Xu, J., Ran, L. et al. A green and efficient technology to recover rare earth elements from weathering crusts. Nat Sustain (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00989-3 This is a low-impact innovation in mining that has been demonstrated on real deposits of rare earths at the 14-ton scale.