source:tech exploristRare earth elements (REE) play a key role in clean energy. It is vital to producing lightweight, efficient batteries and essential components in wind turbines.ntrarily, traditional methods of extracting these metals cause environmental problems such as habitat destruction, water and air pollution, and the high energy requirements for extracting and processing these elements.Penn State researchers used mussel stickiness as inspiration to find a solution to this conundrum. Researchers have created a novel mussel-inspired nano cellulose coating (MINC) by imitating this natura...
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source:cowboy state dailyAnother day, another huge Wyoming rare earth discovery.The Cowboy State is fast becoming ground zero for a modern-day gold rush for rare earth elements long kept in a Chinese stranglehold.Earlier this year, Ramaco Resources announced it had found an unconventional deposit of rare earths that could be worth upward of $37 billion, based on an economic analysis by the Wall Street Journal.A company in Upton, Wyoming, is meanwhile setting up shop on a large rare earth deposit with a novel, developing a new process that promises to speed rare earth processing and make it dra...
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source:SMALL CAPSMitre Mining (ASX: MMC) has hit the daily double of critical mineral wins with a maiden soil sampling program at its 100%-owned Hillside project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region identifying lithium and rare earth element potential.The company’s Pilbara project in exploration licence E45/6126 sits within the highly prospective Shaw River tantalum-lithium-tin field bound by the major lithium production centres of Wodgina, Pilgangoora and Marble Bar.Mitre commenced a maiden field campaign at the end of Q3 2023 to define previously-identified target zones.Multi-element potent...
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Rare Element Resources Receives DOE Approval to Proceed with Construction of Rare Earth Processing and Separation Demonstration Plant source:junior miningLITTLETON, Colo. / Dec 21, 2023 / Business Wire / Rare Element Resources Ltd. (the “Company” or “RER”) (OTCQB: REEMF) is pleased to announce that the U.S. Department of Energy’s (the “DOE”) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has issued a Project Continuation Notice following its approval of the budget for construction of the Company’s planned rare earth processing and separation demonstration plant (the “Demonstra...
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