source:miningreviewAustralia’s Ionic Rare Earths Limited (Ionic), which is listed on the ASX, is expected to be in production within the next few months, albeit on a very small scale, at its Makuutu rare earths project in Uganda.As the company’s MD, TIM HARRISON, and its COO, DR TOMMIE VAN DER WALT, explained to ARTHUR TASSELL recently, the company is adopting a staged approach to development. The first stage, essentially a demonstration plant, is already under construction.While rare earths deposits are not particularly rare, Makuutu is highly unusual – at least in an African context – i...
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source: Autonomous University of BarcelonaA map created by the Debt Observatory in Globalization in collaboration with the EJAtlas of Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), the Institute for Policy Studies and CRAAD-OI Madagascar, documents 28 social and environmental conflicts derived from the extraction, processing and recycling of these minerals.Impacts on water, soil, air and health, lack of transparency and participation in decision-making, human rights violations, criminalization and violence against communities are som...
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source: Science China PressA research team led by Dr. Yingying Zhang (Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University) devised a scheme utilizing silkworms to produce strong, tough silk through feeding them with rare earth ion-modified diets. The rare earth ions can be incorporated into silk fibroin through feeding. And the incorporated ions are capable of forming ion-dipole and cation-π interactions with silk fibroin. These interactions are promising to tune the structures of silk to enhance its mechanical performance.Spectra analysis confirmed the successful incorporation of rare earth ions int...
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source:hellenic shipping newsFrom Pennsylvania to the north of England, coal mines helped to power the Industrial Revolution, turbocharging the economic growth of countries around the world.Today, however, the production and use of coal has become a thorny issue, with critics slamming the fossil fuel’s huge impact on the environment.Organizations like Greenpeace describe coal as “the dirtiest, most polluting way of producing energy.” From the UN Secretary General to the International Energy Agency, talk of phasing out coal is becoming increasingly common.But the global picture is a complex one...
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