Rare Earth Element Archives

Composite image using high-resolution microscopy and spectroscopy showing the absorption and replacement processes of rare earth elements in the eggshell.

A cracking discovery – eggshell waste can recover rare earth elements...

July 16, 2024

Can coal mines be tapped for rare earth elements?

May 28, 2024

A selection of some of the rare earth artificial rocks produced by the team. Picture taken at the iCRAG Lab at Trinity College Dublin. Credit: Trinity College Dublin

Researchers create synthetic rocks to better understand how increasingly sought-after rare...

September 25, 2022

Igánâq, Greenland: view to the southwest from the Igánâq summit (~540m) towards Tunulliarfik and the snowy peaks of Ilímaussaq. Credit: University of St Andrews

New tools to unearth rare metals

December 25, 2021

A lab-grown crystal of a synthetic form of the rare earth mineral, monazite, shows extensive damage to one face after exposure to bio-leaching compound generated by Gluconobacter oxydans. Credit: Credit: Brian Balta/Provided

Bacteria may be key to sustainably extracting earth elements for tech

November 26, 2021

Open cut hard rock mining, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.

Mining precious rare-earth elements from coal fly ash with a reusable...

June 26, 2021

Pioneering new research has helped geologists solve a long-standing puzzle that could help pinpoint new, untapped concentrations of some the most valuable rare earth deposits. Credit: Michael Anenburg, ANU.

Geologists solve puzzle that could predict valuable rare earth element deposits

October 9, 2020

Potential new source of rare earth elements

March 4, 2019

Rare-earth elements discovered in Georgia kaolin mines, study finds

December 18, 2018

Researchers Find Reserves of Rare Earth Elements in Deep-sea Mud

April 24, 2018

Rare Earth element mineral potential in the southeastern US coastal plain

May 15, 2017

Fingerprinting rare earth elements from the air

July 2, 2016

A clean way to extract rare earth metals

June 22, 2016

Appalachian coal ash richest in rare earth elements

May 28, 2016

The world’s rarest minerals

March 19, 2016

Cosmochemists find evidence of rare element in early solar system

March 5, 2016

Extracting rare-earth elements from coal could soon be economical in US

February 3, 2016

Studying the recovery of rare earth elements from coal mining waste

December 19, 2015

Rare earth element

July 7, 2015

New process recycles magnets from factory floor

July 6, 2015

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Purple Amethyst : What causes the purple color of amethyst?

June 18, 2020

New ‘Embryonic’ Subduction Zone Found

June 18, 2013

GeoCalc 4.20

April 16, 2013

As lava hardens, a revelation bubbles up

March 20, 2017

Sediment supply drives floodplain evolution in Amazon Basin

November 3, 2014

Oldest known trees in eastern North America documented

May 11, 2019

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