A U.S.-backed project in South Africa aims to extract rare earth minerals from industrial waste as part of a Trump ...

Rare earth elements sit quietly inside smartphones, electric vehicles, and wind turbines, yet they are notoriously difficult and dirty to produce. A new lab technique now promises to roughly double ...

A new method for testing how well certain plants pull metal contaminants out of the ground could finally make the process ...

A new study suggests rare earth elements form in magma above ancient subduction zones, as that magma reacts with substances ...

Discover sustainable micro-mining techniques using biometallurgy to recover critical rare earth minerals from electronic ...

Two enormous sandlike dunes at an old chemical processing plant in South Africa are at the centre of an exploratory US-backed ...

A new rare earth mineral facility that uses what it claims to be a ground-breaking extraction technique is set to open in ...

Although oyster shells would typically end up in landfills after consumption, the team determined that they can be used to ...

Indiana is preparing to work with private industry to determine the feasibility of retrieving rare earth elements from its legacy coal byproducts. Gov. Mike Braun has been spearheading efforts to ...

The University of Alberta (UoA) has teamed up with Toronto-listed technology company CVW CleanTech to research the feasibility of recovering “abundant” rare earths from the waste generated by the oil ...

The Trump administration brokered an unusual deal with a U.S. mining, refining and magnet company as part of a plan to ...