source:BOZEMAN DAILY CHRONICLEGood for next to nothing but attracting hapless geese and sightseer gawks.That’s been the Berkeley Pit.There are few places in this wide world where voyeurs pay good money for the privilege of observing a body of toxic water.The Berkeley Pit has long been a liability for the Butte community and the entities responsible for its present and future. Those entities include Atlantic Richfield and Montana Resources.Schemes have floated in years past to extract minerals from the pit’s toxic stew but nothing has yielded results promising either commercial or strategic val...
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source:ScienceNewsExploresA rare earth element is one of 17 elements on the periodic table. These 17 metals include 15 “lanthanides.” Those are elements 57 to 71. Scandium (element 21) and yttrium (element 39) are also rare earths.Rare earth elements are not really that rare. They’re found around the world. Some are as common in Earth’s crust as copper or tin. But rare earth elements are only found in very low concentrations. They are usually mixed with each other or other elements. And they’re hard to separate and purify. So miners have to extract lots of ore to get even a little bit of a rar...
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source:SASKTODAYREGINA — Immigration and Career Training and Trade and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison, is leading a delegation to the United Kingdom (UK) and Poland.The mission's focus is on expanding opportunities in agriculture, critical minerals, innovative technology, immigration and talent attraction, according to the Ministry of Trade and Export Development.The UK stop includes an event with the Critical Minerals Association, which will showcase Saskatchewan's capabilities in critical minerals, with a particular focus on the Saskatchewan Research Council's (SRC) ...
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source:malaymailKUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 — A member of the Dewan Negara suggested today that the government set up an agency, body or government-linked company (GLC) to supervise and manage all rare earth related issues in the country.Senator Datuk Mohd Hisamudin Yahaya said the government could coordinate the resource and its sale as well as avoid conflicts of interest between state governments that have such resources and the federal government.“The establishment of such an entity is to control the price and ensure that the country’s resources do not simply disappear. In other words, the state ...
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