Rio Tinto starts producing lithium in California from old mining waste.
Rio Tinto begins producing lithium in California from old mining waste. The Rio Tinto Group is starting a pilot production of lithium in California, searching old mining debris rather than exploring new locations as the battery revolution in electric cars drives demand for the material. The reprocessing of garbage dumps from a 90-year-old mining site in the [...]
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MinSEM - Research project for the closure of recyclable material cycles Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC
Over the next three years, a consortium of seven scientific institutions and companies, headed by the Fraunhofer project group IWKS, will develop innovative processes for the recovery of rare earth elements and platinum group metals from mineral processing and production residues. As part of the MinSEM project, research is being carried out on processes that make it possible to process a wide range of mineral materials in such a way that [...]
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